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New Texas Schoolbooks: Moses Wrote The Constitution For Slavery, Segregation

September 15 Comments Off on New Texas Schoolbooks: Moses Wrote The Constitution For Slavery, Segregation Category: Education, Feed, Tumblr

New Texas Schoolbooks: Moses Wrote The Constitution For Slavery, Segregation:

Well here’s a heck of a surprise! You may remember how Texas re-wrote its standards for history books back in 2010, to make sure that kids learned the important parts of history, like who Phyllis …

Remember kids, there’s no such thing as the separation between church and state, affirmative action causes alien invasions, and Christianity was super helpful for those poor American Indians.

The surprising truth about downward mobility in US higher education

September 10 Comments Off on The surprising truth about downward mobility in US higher education Category: Education, Feed, Tumblr

The surprising truth about downward mobility in US higher education:

In most developed countries, education builds from generation to generation. But in the US, almost 1 in 4 young adults has less education than his or her parents.

When it comes to generational changes in education America is terrible. AND It’s getting WORSE. Oh and guess who is bearing the brunt of the ever widening doom-gyre that is America? Millennials. 

“This education gap is a problem not only for the teenagers on the wrong end of it. It’s a problem…”

September 09 Comments Off on “This education gap is a problem not only for the teenagers on the wrong end of it. It’s a problem…” Category: Education, Feed, Tumblr

“This education gap is a problem not only for the teenagers on the wrong end of it. It’s a problem for the American economy. The economic differences between college graduates and everyone else have reached record levels. Yet for many low-income children – even many who get A’s in high school and do well on the SAT – college remains out of reach. No wonder that upward mobility is less common in the United States than in many other rich countries.”

Top Colleges That Enroll Rich, Middle Class and Poor.

American millennials are THE WORST IN THE WORLD at Technology. Also pretty terrible at understanding numbers and awful at reading. [PDF]

May 16 Comments Off on American millennials are THE WORST IN THE WORLD at Technology. Also pretty terrible at understanding numbers and awful at reading. [PDF] Category: Education, Feed, Tumblr

American millennials are THE WORST IN THE WORLD at Technology. Also pretty terrible at understanding numbers and awful at reading. [PDF]