{"id":11378,"date":"2015-10-24T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T14:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-am-clear-about-all-of-that-and-yet-i-dont\/"},"modified":"2015-10-24T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T14:44:29","slug":"i-am-clear-about-all-of-that-and-yet-i-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-am-clear-about-all-of-that-and-yet-i-dont\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I am clear about all of that \u2026 and yet I don\u2019t care. I do not care if free college won\u2019t solve inequality. As an isolated policy, I know that it won\u2019t. I don\u2019t care that it will likely only benefit the high achievers among the statistically unprivileged\u2014those with above-average test scores, know-how, or financial means compared to their cohort. Despite these problems, today\u2019s debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to higher education discourse\u2014a concept that fifty years of individuation, efficiency fetishes, and a rightward drift in politics have nearly pummeled out of higher education altogether. We no longer have a way to talk about public education as a collective good because even we defenders have adopted the language of competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/article\/tressie-mcmillan-cottom-why-free-college-necessary\">Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/a> in <i>Dissent<\/i>. Why Free College Is Necessary (via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am clear about all of that \u2026 and yet I don\u2019t care. I do not care if free college won\u2019t solve inequality. As an isolated policy, I know that it won\u2019t. I don\u2019t care that it will likely only benefit the high achievers among the statistically unprivileged\u2014those with above-average test scores, know-how, or financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Xw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}