Living & Learning in Poverty: Social reform to support whole life of children (U...

Palmetto Educators Network: Social reform to support whole life of children (U...: "Response to the UK Government's Tackling Child Poverty and Improving Life Chances: Consulting on a New Approach from the Joseph Rowntree Fo..."

“Arts of the Possible,” Adrienne Rich (2001)

Universal public education has two possible—and contradictory—missions. One is the development of a literate, articulate, and well-informed citizenry so that the democratic process can continue to evolve and the promise of radical equality can be brought closer to realization. The other is the perpetuation of a class system dividing an elite, nominally “gifted” few, tracked from an early age, from a very large underclass essentially to be written off as alienated from language and science, from poetry and politics, from history and hope—toward low-wage temporary jobs. The second is the direction our society has taken. The results are devastating in terms of the betrayal of a generation of youth. The loss to the whole of society is incalculable. (p. 162)

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Social reform to support whole life of children (U...