Kip Austin Hinton

The effect of this will be to undermine the entire concept of public education. Private colleges are not raising tuition as fast, and their students use much more federally funded loan aid than UC students. State institutions will stagger. For poor students, access is reduced, while for middle class students, private schools may become the norm (non-profit and for-profit). For now, this will save some state money, but it will greatly increase the federal burden, greatly inflate total student loan debt, and greatly reduce the investment in California's economy -- which will reduce future tax earnings. This disinvestment is not only inequitable, it is financially stupid. Penny wise pound foolish. _________________________________ By Steve Lopez March 14, 2012 My daughter attends elementary school in Los Angeles Unified, which has just sent out 11,700 layoff notices in the latest round of miserable news. ... I was in the Bay Area recently and caught this headline in the Con...

Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with _______ learning , grade advancement with _______ education , a diploma with _______ competence , and fluency with the _______ ability to say something new . His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for _______ health care , social work for the _______ improvement of community life, police protection for _______ safety , military poise for _______ national security , the rat race for _______ productive work . Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends...