How Do We Break the Pattern of Poor Teaching for Poor Children?
Teaching that encourages creativity and critical thinking is increasingly reserved for affluent children.
05.07.11
Almost every proposal for "school reform" is top-down: divert public money to quasi-private charter schools, pit states against one another in a race for cash, offer rewards when test scores go up, fire the teachers or close the schools when they don't.
Keep Reading
Show less
education
new york
economy
computers
economist
poetry
books
corporate
boston
school
curriculum
parents
school reform
national assessment of educational progress
poor kids
u.s. department of education
black children
white children
latino children
alfie kohn
international tests
deborah meier
eduatior
middle class kids
jonathan kozol
work hard be nice
workbooks
worksheets
michigan state university
new jersey commisioner of education
bret schundler
richard rothstein
pedagogy
pedagogy of poverty
deborah stipek
stanford school of education
linda darling hammond
claude steele
mceducation of the negro
behaviorism
inner cities
reggio emilia
performance assessment
david gribble
natalie hopkinson
martin haberman
seatwork
questioning
collaborating
fire teachers
close schools
university of wisconsin
race
economic justice
technology
Articles