"To better promote social mobility, higher ed needs to reject the longstanding idea that exclusivity is excellence." --Panelist remark from a The Chronicle of Higher Education virtual forum, “Sharpening the Social-Mobility Mission”, https://lnkd.in/gZvfJF9E. Well-stated! 💯 👏 I'd go further--that educators and educational systems can be deemed 'excellent' mostly by their results helping any learner to achieve their next step, not just the most exclusive. For example, as an adult educator, it was intensely more powerful helping pre-literate adults become readers and writers in a second language--even moreso than helping advanced English learners to pass the citizenship test or GED. There is so much power and potential unleashed when learning moves forward for those who have not had access to it. It is important to educate the more educated, but that's relatively marginal value-add.
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So true for many School Principals and Teachers.
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