HeyJaredJay Gillen: A New Constitution for Public Education
Every middle schooler should have the expectation that when they are in high school they will have a good-paying job sharing knowledge or skills with younger children, peers, or other people in their community.
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80. Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Supreme Court of Caste (opens the original)
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The Supreme Court of CasteNikole Hannah-Jones—award-winning New York Times journalist—and her husband, Faraji, tried to violate the implicit constitution of education. They decided to send their daughter, Najya, not to the best schools their wealth and status could afford, but to a school for children from a different caste—a segregated New York City public school for families with few options.The implicit constitution of education forbids this. Its core principle is that wealthier families must
79. Walk up to any teenager at a bus stop and ask: “What do you teach?” (opens the original)
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Twenty-three years ago, high school math literacy workers in the Baltimore Algebra Project wanted to be sure that all their members were paid on time, so they developed a payroll process. A new team would get started and of course they asked the now-experienced team how to do payroll. Two years later they elected an office management team to coordinate payroll across groups.The school system arbitrarily decided to eliminate their contract for math teaching because of a state budget crisis, so th
78. Earned insurgencies (opens the original)
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Preamble to a new Constitution for Public Education: Every middle-schooler will have the expectation that when they are in high school, they will have a good-paying job, sharing knowledge or skills with younger children, peers, or adults in their community.These essays are at best reference points or a map of an imaginary land. They will make more sense in a future—not too distant, I hope—when a certain concentration of young people start to enact the relationships described here: eco
77. No substitute for a peer (opens the original)
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Earlier in this series I described how a peer or near-peer teacher is inimitable (“Peer teaching cannot be automated”). An adult teacher can’t substitute for a peer and neither can a machine, because only a young person can stand in a peer relationship to other young people. We may think, talking to an AI, that we are in a relationship of a kind. But a friend, unless they are imaginary, is flesh and blood. A friend showing me how to hit a tennis ball, or sitting close, shoulder t
76. Judging the value of young people teaching (opens the original)
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Treating education as centered on future employment is too narrow a focus. But young people and their families have pressing concerns about material well-being, and ignoring their concerns is insulting and short-sighted. Accordingly, the last two posts explained paths that young people hope will lead towards stable employment. One post discussed the limitations of employer-dependent vocational education: employers make vocational slots available based on what their corporations need, not necessa
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