Education Quotes by Alissa Quart

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Alissa Quart’s eight reflections explore how media and culture intersect with education, drawing from her journalism experience. Her keen observations make the connection between learning and society vivid.

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Social networks matter greatly, and our class calibrations are often around what college one attended, leading to gruesome institutional divisions between those…

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On the surface, public schools can seem egalitarian, especially with their websites' emphasis on words such as 'connection,' 'community,' and 'choice.' Yet…

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The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of…

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Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

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The list of costly services that supplement some children's public education is growing longer and now includes consultants, tutors, and test prep.…

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There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I…

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Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products…

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If we could support school curricula about social class, we might discuss the full complexity of 'wealth' within the parameters of our…

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Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly…

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'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new…

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I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an existential level,…

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When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine…

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To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and…

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Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting…

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A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults…

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Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so…

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Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the…

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Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois…

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