#john garvey

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day 5 of @prestongarveyweek: animals

i like to think some of preston's fondest memories are of his life on his parents' farm. one of his proudest moments was helping his father deliver blossom, his favorite brahmin.

i drew preston and his mother, alma, here. i think i like the name john for mr. garvey. ☺️

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John Garvey

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John Garvey

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John Garvey

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John Garvey

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What about credentials? Hiring practices in what might be considered the primary labor markets effectively exclude large numbers of people from consideration for better-paying jobs because they lack credentials—adversely affecting those who have been least successful in schools. This is in spite of the fact that there is frequently little evidence that what’s been learned during the acquisition of the credential has much to do with successful job performance or even with the more effective acquisition of technical skills (see Collins, Credential Society ).

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Let’s put two and two together. The civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s initiated a process, uneven to be sure, to end legally sanctioned race discrimination. But, the election of Barack Obama notwithstanding, it is evident that black, and many Hispanic, individuals and communities live in deeply oppressive circumstances rooted in high rates of unemployment and low incomes. There has been a lot of handwringing as well as lots of vicious drivel about why this is so. But it should be clear that the combination of credential inflation, massive educational failure, especially in black and Hispanic communities, and the elimination of millions of industrial jobs, has all but guaranteed the reproduction of a racially stratified society.

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