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This is that HORRIBLE Ruby Payne woman who has made a gazillion dollars selling this to educators and schools and oh god.
You see it in EVERY professional organization. Y'all mad at DiAngelo? You should get up on Ruby Payne. Her whole schtick is a culture of poverty for orgs workbook.
Google "hidden rules of class" and look at the list of organizations that have adopted it.
A snapshot
They're teaching this in socmed, teacher training programs, criminology, school leadership, business leadership, seminary, society of Human Resources management. it is EVERYWHERE.
And I have never ever ever read a truly serious investigative piece on this woman or her work. It is phenomenal.
I've been on this for years twitter.com/search?q=%40tr…
This TC piece is accessible and just look at the excerpts about Payne’s qualifications:

tcrecord.org/content.asp?co…
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There is no defensible formula for pricing signal versus human capital development. And even if there was, what is the benefit of pricing it? Again, reduce Harvard's tuition but don't think it is a counter to the rising cost of education or anything related to justice or access.
And why does everyone suddenly have a single definition of "quality"? Did I miss something?
There is no cost or price of signal. There is no cost or price of human capital development. There is only a rough value of labor market returns to whatever it is we do in schooling and the cost to deliver them relative to demand. There is no price of quality.
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I won't defend Harvard's tuition. But I will tell you that I wrote a book about what happens when you conflate signal and human capital. And it's not pretty. You don't really stick it to Harvard when you do that. You stick it to the rest of us.
If you want a refund for the tuition would you also accept a seal on your Harvard degree that says "online only"? If not, why not? What do you think you pay for, exactly?
And I hate it but it is the reality of the thing. You cannot turn signal into capital mid-stream. And if you did, you only hurt the student and downstream institutions who don't have the save prestige to buffer them the way Harvard does.
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Thank you @lachristensen for asking me to contribute to this @nytimesbooks round-up. I took the prompt personally. What of *my* experience with certain books do I wish others could have? nytimes.com/article/books-…
I always recommend "Coming of Age in Mississippi". In many ways, it was my first experience of a narrative account of "merit" as white myth-making. Her family's history of sharecropping puts more meat on the bones of, say, Wilkerson's Warmth of Other Suns. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/116457/c…
A Fine Balance was my first time touching the idea of caste. Long before I would know what sociology is, that idea of a global system of oppression inscribed in people's bodies in a way that felt familiar to me but strange? This was that. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115368/a…
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