Gloria Ladson-Billings
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199982981
- eISBN:
- 9780199346219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199982981.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
Gloria Ladson-Billings introduces readers to the concept of the opportunity gap and the idea of an “education debt.” Calling the persistent achievement disparities between Black and Latino students ...
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Gloria Ladson-Billings introduces readers to the concept of the opportunity gap and the idea of an “education debt.” Calling the persistent achievement disparities between Black and Latino students and White students a “gap” suggests that something inherent in Black and Latino students, their families, their communities, their cultures, their schools, or their teachers is responsible for the disparities. Today, teachers and their unions are the main villains in the achievement gap narrative. WhileLadson-Billings agrees that some aspects of each of these elements might contribute to the problem, she contends that it is shortsighted and incomplete to target them as the only causes. She explains that the achievement disparities we see in the UnitedStates are a result of historical, economic, political, and moral decisions that we as a society have made over time.Less
Gloria Ladson-Billings introduces readers to the concept of the opportunity gap and the idea of an “education debt.” Calling the persistent achievement disparities between Black and Latino students and White students a “gap” suggests that something inherent in Black and Latino students, their families, their communities, their cultures, their schools, or their teachers is responsible for the disparities. Today, teachers and their unions are the main villains in the achievement gap narrative. WhileLadson-Billings agrees that some aspects of each of these elements might contribute to the problem, she contends that it is shortsighted and incomplete to target them as the only causes. She explains that the achievement disparities we see in the UnitedStates are a result of historical, economic, political, and moral decisions that we as a society have made over time.
Peter Temin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036160
- eISBN:
- 9780262339988
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036160.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Political Economy
This book analyses the American economy in the twenty-first century as a dual economy in the spirit of W. Arthur Lewis. Adapting the subsistence and capitalist sectors characterized by Lewis, the ...
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This book analyses the American economy in the twenty-first century as a dual economy in the spirit of W. Arthur Lewis. Adapting the subsistence and capitalist sectors characterized by Lewis, the American dual economy contains a low-wage sector and a FTE (Finance, Technology, and Electronics) sector. The transition from the low-wage to the FTE sector is through education, which is becoming increasingly difficult for members of the low-wage sector because the FTE sector largely abandoned the American tradition of quality public schools and universities. Policy debates about public education and other policies that serve the low-wage sector often characterize members of the low-wage sector as black even though the low-wage sector is largely white. The model of a modern dual economy and the American history of race relations explain difficulties in both current politics and governmental actions in criminal justice, education, infrastructure and household debts.Less
This book analyses the American economy in the twenty-first century as a dual economy in the spirit of W. Arthur Lewis. Adapting the subsistence and capitalist sectors characterized by Lewis, the American dual economy contains a low-wage sector and a FTE (Finance, Technology, and Electronics) sector. The transition from the low-wage to the FTE sector is through education, which is becoming increasingly difficult for members of the low-wage sector because the FTE sector largely abandoned the American tradition of quality public schools and universities. Policy debates about public education and other policies that serve the low-wage sector often characterize members of the low-wage sector as black even though the low-wage sector is largely white. The model of a modern dual economy and the American history of race relations explain difficulties in both current politics and governmental actions in criminal justice, education, infrastructure and household debts.
Peter Temin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036160
- eISBN:
- 9780262339988
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036160.003.0012
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Political Economy
The United States has a dual financial system; the FTE sector has financial assets, and the low-wage sector has personal debts. Financial policies after the 2008 financial crisis did not include ...
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The United States has a dual financial system; the FTE sector has financial assets, and the low-wage sector has personal debts. Financial policies after the 2008 financial crisis did not include effective mortgage relief for low-wage house owners. Housing, the largest asset of the bottom of the FTE sector, turned into a liability for poor black, brown and white mortgage holders. Education debts for low-wage workers trying to move to the FTE sector have grown to rival outstanding housing debts. These debts arise as states neglect public universities who raise tuition to replace state funds. For-profit universities inhibit reform of education financing as private prisons inhibit reform of mass incarceration.Less
The United States has a dual financial system; the FTE sector has financial assets, and the low-wage sector has personal debts. Financial policies after the 2008 financial crisis did not include effective mortgage relief for low-wage house owners. Housing, the largest asset of the bottom of the FTE sector, turned into a liability for poor black, brown and white mortgage holders. Education debts for low-wage workers trying to move to the FTE sector have grown to rival outstanding housing debts. These debts arise as states neglect public universities who raise tuition to replace state funds. For-profit universities inhibit reform of education financing as private prisons inhibit reform of mass incarceration.
