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  1. Jan 2022
    1. And as historians of schooling have long noticed, but few have taken up the charge, a full history of urban education would be more than a history of schooling.

      I do believed that education can change a person's life, and more social factors will be discovered if we want to study in detail how people receive education. A person's life experience is more like a microcosm of a small society, in which social mobility can be every turning point in life, such as reading, getting married and having children, and so on.

    2. But it illustrated a partial reversal of the centralizing impulse of the turn-of-the-century school system.

      It reminds me that all successes are not accidental. There are countless people who work for segregation. They may fight for the next generation because that is the hope.

    3. “culture of poverty”

      The "culture of poverty" describes the factors related to the behavior of the poor, including weak self-structure, sense of compliance, confusion of gender identity and so on, which is different from the values of middle-class members.

    4. Female teachers faced a conflicting mix of external and internal expectations—that they were kind because of their inherent maternalism, that they were compliant cogs in a massive bureaucracy committed to tallying and ordering students, that they were employees in a public service occupation interested in shaping the terms and content of their work.

      I think this sentence shows the contradictions experienced by women in the process of trying to develop themselves in the society at that time.

    5. The U.S. population grew by 30 million residents between 1900 and 1920; 14 million of them were new immigrants.

      This sentence shows it could be one reason that the United States focused on public education as a priority program when Britain focusd on unemployment, health insurance and other benefits in nineteenth, and to meet the influx of immigrants by building schools.

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    1. This is how schools limit college admission for poor students and, in turn, mass social mobility much earlier than we realize.

      This sounds really cruel because we always think about the positive impact of education, but do not study what kind of the education that certain groups of people is receiving. School structure inequality is extremely unfair to poor students to some extent because they do not have the right to make choices.

    2. housing segregation continues to plague the educational and social out-comes of multiple members of the

      I think it is a problem for everyone, especially in the past two years. What we all know is the increase in house prices over the past two years, and its changes have an impact on both middle-class and wealthy families. If education has always been linked to interests, it will run counter to the purpose of education itself.

    1. Wealthier families, childless and empty-nest couples, and businesses subsidize families with children in school.

      The subsidies provided by these groups will be used as support for the sustained development of society, and I think they are more willing to see an improvement in public education than others.

    2. “savage inequalities,”

      I think the use of this word may be a bit exaggerated. Students from both high-income and low-income families should have the same rights in school.

    3. European nations were about a generation behind the United States in expanding secondary education; the United States was about a generation behind Europe in instituting its welfare state.

      This shows that European countries and the United States have different starting points in public welfare, that is to say, they attach different importance to public education. And the national system is also formulated according to the national conditions of each country, and can not be said to be absolutely good or bad.

    4. Insight into the links between the two will illuminate the mechanisms through which American governments try to accomplish their goals; and it will show how institutions whose public purpose is egalitarian in fact reproduce inequality.

      The latter sentence brings out the existing conflict from an ironic point of view, indicating that egalitarian institutions need to make some changes.