Op Eds

I love the tone and maybe half the content of Paul Krugman’s provocative and trending post, “Knowledge Isn’t Power.”  It is refreshing because he attempts to unwind real diversions and names a kind of national pundit syndrome that maybe really should make a diagnostic manual between naivety and narcissism. And (speaking of narcissism) I can’t help but like the way his naming of the education-centric story mirrors the one I tried to layout in this TEDx talk. But as a student of our national discourse on education committed to addressing inequality of opportunities and outcomes, I come to different conclusions. Krugman isn’t wrong on his title. And he isn’t wrong on his statistics about the growing concentration of wealth not mapping to educational outcomes. But he’s wrong to limit the power of education to create power. Just as he rejects conventional wisdom of the pundit class, we also need to […]