#Meritocracy

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

High-stakes tests are garbage, pedagogically bankrupt assessment tools that act as a form of empirical facewash for "meritocracy."1/ They primarily serve as a way for wealthy parents to buy good

A. 👏 gufeng or bust

anonflail

currently reading Passions of the Cut Sleeve by Bret Hinsch -- i don't know how updated this is, as it was written in 1990, if you'd like to recommend me

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Are you ready? Here are the charts to visualize wealth distribution. The oldest millennial is 39 & if we compare generation for the same age period:*In 1989, boomer had 21.5%

peeleraja

peeleraja

Ask me anything and i will give a libertarian opinion.AMA Through incentives.https://mobile.twitter.com/arafatkamaal/status/1264510691865554944 The market will tellhttps://mobile.twitter.com/GutsGloryAbhi/status/1264510651965206528 Let us w

🇷🇼 Lin Manuel Rwanda 🇷🇼

LinManuelRwanda

You're not in tzarist Russia anymore, Dorothy. "Elite overproduction" in the modern system is far from an accident. In fact, it's essential to keeping everything chugging along smoothly.Let's talk about

Sebastian Milbank 🥀🇬🇧

JSMilbank

Oh I’ve got a thousand of thesehttps://twitter.com/crankyfed/status/1388230829999075329 too many people: too few trees Ban cars Men should not wear shorts outside of exercise, gardening or lounging on the beach. Put

Bradly Mason

AlsoACarpenter

A refresher: What is Critical Race Theory after all? As drawn from the explicit answers to this question given by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mari Matsuda, Charles Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Devon Carbado,

Greg Lukianoff

glukianoff

THREAD: For Part 5 of our Catching up with Coddling series, we’re taking a look at 3 books on parenting that offer important food for thought on how we’ve gotten

James Noonan

_jmnoonan

I'm proud to share a new open access article, with @TravisJBristol @berkeleygse, in @AERAOpen: “Taking Care of Your Own”: Parochialism, Pride of Place, & the Drive to Diversify Teaching. Here’s

Jim Golby

jimgolby

One of the primary defenses of SECNAV Mobly’s decision to remove CAPT Crozier is that he didn’t respect the chain of command.But it’s notable that the MILITARY officers in

Chad Loder

chadloder

Lack of diversity in tech is no accident.Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, returned to his alma mater Stanford in 2012 to teach his now famous "CS183: Startups" course.Thiel invited PayPal

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

When I think of the last 40 years of neoliberalism, I think of a game of musical chairs, in which the music's tempo steadily increases, the number of chairs rapidly

Rudy Havenstein, Elysium ESG Diversity Officer

RudyHavenstein

"Never fall in love too much with a hot dog." - Ray Dalio Ray Dalio's limo. Ray Dalio's bathtub. Ray Dalio's wind-chimes. #PrincipleOfTheDay Ray Dalio's fridge. Feels like a Wednesday.

Lost Turntable

LostTurntable

I'm glad the media is starting to pay attention to Doug TenNapel's bigotry. I've been cataloging his hatred for a while now, I'm going to consolidate everything I found into

maritareads 📚

atienokajwang

Thread of books I read in 2020 January 1/2https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3029843855 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3153189263 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48541007 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3146450672 1/2https://w

Ingrid M

iMusing

good morninghappySunday! Today on #Insiders are Niki Savva, murdoch columnist and former media advisor to Peter Costello (Liberal Party, Howard government treasurer, now ninefax chair); recently returned ABC Europe correspondent