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Stephen Downes

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Interview with author Peter Smith, who offers his own analysis of the crisis in American education: it's the universities' fault. "The problem, he says, is not that millions of lower-income and minority students lack the capacity to learn, but that colleges and universities lack the capacity to educate." I think there's a point to what he says, but I think that the deeper point is that there is a social divide, not just in the U.S. (though we have certainly witnessed that) but around the world, and that the current structure of learning results in a disinclination on the part of the enabled to provide genuine access to the disenfranchised.

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