FW: article: "Persistent Precarity: The making of a generation"

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Brian <http://www.eecs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:43:19 -0800
 >
 > ?It starts innocuously,? Harris writes, ?but by algebra they?re calculating 
 > parabolas using the trajectory of an American sniper?s bullet in North Korea.?
 > 
 > Now that's scary.
 > 
 > I totally agree with the article about the point it makes in passing, that the 
 > current big push to teach "coding" is meant to help businesses, not to help the 
 > students.  My first-ever tweet, from an Obama ceremony of programming education 
 > at the White House, was about this.
 > 
 > That table of contents looks mostly really interesting.  If I end up spending 
 > even more of my day online to read The Nation, I'm going to be annoyed...  I 
 > already spend way too much time on the NYT!