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On 6/1/11 7:46 PM, Mark Lause wrote:
It's not just that she wants the space between the immediate needs of business and schooling, but she sees education as an essential feature of the infrastructure that makes capitalism work as it has in the past. The problem with the current spate of "reforms" is that they are essentially premised on the idea that education must be cost-effective in some sense immediately evident in profit terms.
This relates to the question that has preoccupied me for some time, namely the seeming incapacity of the contemporary ruling class to be able to act in its own long-term interests around a range of questions such as infrastructure, environment, education, etc.
Ravitch would seem to be committed to the New Deal project while the social basis for such a project disappeared long ago. Interesting contradiction.
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