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I'm supposed to be preparing for a teaching conference but and I'm struggling with the impossible position teachers face in this perilous time.
Asymmetrical polarization is too kind a term for what we're experiencing.
"Fuckers" was also too kind, but pearls were clutched.
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The relationship between education and government of and by the people is self evident. Education- like roads and libraries, is a public good. But education is, as I've written before, incompatible with ideologies built on lies.
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Trumpism and education are incompatible. This isn't a partisan statement. There are Republicans, like @RepKinzinger , who reject the dishonesty at the very foundation of Trump's bid to reverse our election.
But where education concerns truth, Trumpism is built on lying.
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There's a vast, well-funded network of organizations dedicated to souring public support for higher education. They have been enormously successful.
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Education is popular and incompatible with the fossil fuel industry's goals. But trashing education itself isn't a winning message. Most parents want their kids to have access to the economic mobility that higher education has historically offered (before the debt crisis).