https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj Key Quotes en-us 2017-04-06 21:57:59 UTC 2025-10-09 04:56:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165430736 "Many of the students say this is their first time school has meant anything to them. More than a few talk about turning their lives around. It doesn't take long to imagine the kind of society we would have if more people has this opportunity." ]]> 2017-04-07 16:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165430736 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431281 "If editors of 'The Economist' are right, the deep cuts in education - especially to programs and institutions that help poor people connect to school or work - will have disastrous long-term economic consequences that far outweigh immediate budgetary gains" ]]> 2017-04-07 16:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431281 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431292 "What kind of society do we want to become? Will there be another Michael Harrington 50 year from now writing about an America that has a higher rate of poverty and even wider social divides?" ]]> 2017-04-07 16:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431292 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431370 "What really strikes me, though, is students' level of engagement, particularly in the occupational programs...and they do and redo an assignment until they get it right. Hope and desire are brimming." Paragraph 8]]> 2017-04-07 16:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431370 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431898 " We are looking toward the horizon of intonation when we should be looking straight in front of us at the tens of millions of chronicling unemployed Americans and providing comprehensive occupation and educational  and social services." ]]> 2017-04-07 16:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431898 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431934 "I don't dispute the difficulty of budgeting in the recession, nor the fact that education spending includes waste that should be cut. But we need to resist the framing of our situation as inevitable and normal." ]]> 2017-04-07 16:43:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165431934 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432120 "It has been nearly 50 years since Michael Harrington wrote The Other America, pulling the curtain back on invisible poverty within the United States."(pg 181 Paragraph 2)]]> 2017-04-07 16:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432120 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432326 "What really strikes me, though, is students' level of engagement, particularly in the occupational programs"]]> 2017-04-07 16:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432326 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432467 "  The solution to our social and economic woes lies in new technologies in the cutting edge. This is our sputnik moment a very American way to free more problems."  ]]> 2017-04-07 16:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432467 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432524 "The civic and moral dimensions also are diminished by the powerful market-based orientation to economic and social problems." Paragraph 11.]]> 2017-04-07 16:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432524 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432605 "Antigovernment, anti-welfare-state, antitax, - this ideology undercuts broad-scale public responses to inequality" ]]> 2017-04-07 16:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432605 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432770 " The civic and moral dimensions are diminished by the powerful market based orientation to economic and social problem anti government, and high welfare state, anti tax-- this ideology cuts brood scale public responses to inequality. ]]> 2017-04-07 16:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165432770 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165433288 "As I have gotten to know these students, the numbers have come alive." ]]> 2017-04-07 16:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165433288 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165433614 "A certificate or degree alone will nit automatically lift them out of hard times- there is a bit of magic bullet thinking in these college initiatives- but getting a decent basic education could make a significant difference in their lives."]]> 2017-04-07 16:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165433614 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165433916 "And they do and re-do an assignment until they get it right. Hope and desire are burning. MAny of the students say this is the first time school has mant anything to them."]]> 2017-04-07 16:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/165433916 https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/1102873314 2021-01-19 18:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/rb7difmhvmoj/wish/1102873314