So, little girls in German schools are learning to caramelize sugar, while in an army boarding school in Russia, they’re handling scary-looking weapons … and reciting Pushkin, of course ;-)
ID badges containing radio tags started to be introduced at the start of the 2012 school year to schools run by San Antonio’s Northside Independent School District (NISD). The tracking tags gave NISD a better idea of the numbers of students attending classes each day - the daily average of which dictates how much cash it gets from state coffers.
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BBC News - US school tag tracker project prompts court row
I was all, “Right on, kid for taking a stand against this bullshit,” until I read this bit:
Ms Hernandez refused to wear the tag because it conflicted with her religious beliefs, according to court papers. Wearing such a barcoded tag can be seen as a mark of the beast as described in Revelation 13 in the Bible, Ms Hernandez’s father told Wired magazine in an interview.
Because yeah, from what I remember of Bible study, barcodes must be right up there with entire Book of Leviticus in terms of things you didn’t think would send you to hell, but will … FFS.
While the “glut” of PhDs seems to be slowly attracting more and more attention, it is in fact nothing new. The problem has existed for decades. Unfortunately, there is reason to believe that the situation is getting worse. In January 2010, under the heading “Another Reason to Just Say No to a Ph.D.,” Gabriela Montell posted an informative graph on the Chronicle of Higher Education hiring blog. It was the work of economist Michael Mandel, who used Bureau of Labor Statistics data to determine that the “real earnings for full-time workers with a doctoral degree” had dropped 10% between 1999 and 2008. Looking at these numbers, Mandel concluded, “there’s no sense of a PhD being a desirable degree.
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87. The financial rewards are decreasing. - 100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School
A really good blog. I wish I’d been able to read it right after I graduated from college.
(via theredshoes)
Sorry, but who the fuck gets a PhD to earn more money? Its desirability doesn’t have anything to do with earning potential. Or am I naive? Probably, since I believe that education in itself is not about getting jobs, but about learning more about the world in which we live.
*cue sappy music here*
(via workman)
Abolitionist genocidaires
Because of the value of slaves in the South and the institution which upheld its existence, it became an issue of great importance in the North. The basic understanding was that the South had to be purged of slaves. This could theoretically have been done through genocide (as with the Native Americans).
holy cow!
“With her school lacking desks, a student who has found one carries it home each day in a barrio of Managua.” (December 1985)
1985 in Managua, but I read a similar story about a province in China recently …
(via womenreading)
AKA Orientals
Because Asian-Americans, also known as Orientals, are so different from the majority ethnicity, Orientalism came about. In other words, Orientalism is seeing the Orientals as completely different people.
fuuuuuck …
FROWNBITE Student Camren Jenkins was interviewed by a local TV news reporter as he waited for school to start at Frazier International Magnet School Wednesday in Chicago. Teachers and students were returning to class after teachers’ union officials voted to end a seven-day strike. (Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images via The Wall Street Journal)
I love everything about this photo. Everything.
I’d love to hear what he had to say …
A mother, daughter, and table ride a motor scooter to Nangang Primary School in rural China. Out of the 5,000 students who live in this rural township, about 3,000 had to bring their own desks and chairs to school. PHOTO: Imaginechina/Corbis
(via uglyculture)
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it’s all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum. We are going to be a nation of young students who are obese, know nothing about art, know nothing about music.
—Spike Lee (via theycallmemrsharp)
(Source: vulture.com, via theycallmemrsharp)
