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What is the connection between education and equality?

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What is the connection between education and equality?

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The better technology students have access to, the more they can learn. On top of that, learning how to use complex technology prepares students for the future and their careers which will use such technology.

"..a technocratic economic policy that focuses on the dissemination of skills as a way to reduce inequality in a technology-dependent economy."

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"..how to design a system that will offer the real possibility of equal educational attainment, if not achievement, to all students. The vocational approach imagines that this equal attainment will translate into a wider distribution of skills, which will reduce income inequality."

Having an education up to 8th grade only prepares you for basic jobs, like minimum-wage jobs.

"[the state] argued that once students had completed eighth grade, the public schools had met their responsibility to enable children “to eventually function productively as civic participants.” Not coincidentally, the state argued that this education level was adequate preparation for minimum-wage labor."

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education to prepare students for a job in the future.

"Consensus thus emerged in the 1980s around vocational education’s essential role in global economic competitiveness. At the same time, economists drew closer connections between education and inequality. By the early 1990s, economists had identified technological change, which biased available jobs toward high-skilled workers, as the primary culprit."

"Thomas Piketty writes, “Historical experience suggests that the principal mechanism for convergence [of incomes and wealth] at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge""

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Participatory readiness is the preparation to participate in the political life of a democracy. Being ready to contribute to solving problems, respecting democratic principles, and knowing how to judge the government.

"This understanding begins with the recognition that fair economic outcomes are aided by a robust democratic process and, therefore, by genuine political equality. Thus an education focused not merely on technical skills, but also on what I call participatory readiness, provides a distinct and better way to promote equality through schooling."

"..twenty-four state courts “have explicitly held that preparation for capable citizenship is a primary purpose of public education.."

"If political choices determine the rules that shape distributive patterns, it makes sense to focus first on political, not economic, equality. And if we choose political equality as our orienting ideal—empowering all to participate capably in the life of a polity—a different view of education’s purpose, content, and consequence comes into view."

"The ideal civic agent carries out all three of these tasks—disinterested deliberation, prophetic frame shifting, and fair fighting—ethically and justly."

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increasing education in the fields of STEM

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increasing education in the fields of STEM

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More education in STEM prepares students to work in more technologically advanced careers, but it can also outweigh the amount of civic education.

"..massively increased investment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education—STEM—and correspondingly reduced outlays for the humanities."

"..National Academy of Sciences’ Rising above the Gathering Storm again emphasized the need for significant improvements in science and technology education.."

"2016 State of the Union address, the president announced a Computer Science for All initiative that would make students “job-ready on day one.”"

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"..the poor catch up with the rich to the extent that they achieve the same level of technological know-how, skill, and education.” Broad dissemination of skills is expected to drive down the wage premium on expertise and compress the income distribution."

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Allen is not against vocational education but wants more

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Allen is not against vocational education but wants more

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"It is not that civic education is incompatible with professional training, but policymakers, education specialists, and many parents—including low-income parents, whose children are most likely to see their civic education shortchanged—have narrowed their focus exclusively to the economic field. In the process, they have lost sight of the full range of inequalities from which our society suffers and which well-rounded education could alleviate."

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"The technology-based analysis of inequality and the vocational paradigm focuses specifically on economic equality."

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the belief that income inequality is not effected by politics

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the belief that income inequality is not effected by politics

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"This is shortsighted because economic inequality is an outgrowth of politics. “Today’s world economy is the product of explicit decisions that governments had made in the past,” Rodrik writes. “It was the choice of governments to loosen regulations on finance and aim for full cross-border capital mobility, just as it was a choice to maintain these policies largely intact, despite a massive global financial crisis.”"

"the wage premium on skill can explain only part of growing U.S. income inequality: political forces shape distributive outcomes, and there are limits to how much the advantages of education can be moderated through the dissemination of technological skills."

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"The idea is that education increases income, and participation correlates to socioeconomic status."

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"To make judgments about the course of human events and our government’s role in them, we need history, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology, not to mention math—especially the statistical reasoning necessary for probabilistic judgment—and science, as governmental policy naturally intersects with scientific questions. If we are to decide on the core principles that should orient our judgments about what will bring about safety and happiness, surely we need philosophy, literature, and religion or its history. Then, since the democratic citizen does not make or execute judgments alone, we need the arts of conversation, eloquence, and prophetic speech. Preparing ourselves to exercise these arts takes us again to literature and to the visual arts, film, and music."

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"High SAT verbal scores correlate with increased likelihood of political participation, while high SAT math scores correlate with decreased likelihood of participation."