I've been very into the Occupy Wall Street movement recently. I've spent an hour or two a day reading articles on it, re-posting them and commenting on social media to spread the word. I've gotten into some adamant debates with libertarians and neo-liberals/conservatives. I attended Occupy Wall Street last weekend. But I haven't written about the movement here. I felt there was a relationships between education and the economic injustice that OWS is protesting, but I wasn't certain how to write about the two.
Luckily Nicholas D. Kristof did and his Op-Ed for the New York Times Occupy the Classroom addressed this relationship.
"One common thread, whether I’m reporting on poverty in New York City or in Sierra Leone, is that a good education tends to be the most reliable escalator out of poverty. Another common thread: whether in America or Africa, disadvantaged kids often don’t get a chance to board that escalator."
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