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Poor Teaching for Poor Children… in the Name of Reform
Author: Alfie Kohn
Location: EdWeek
Year: April 2011
This concise and powerful article by author Alfie Kohn describes how poor children often receive the most standardized, behaviorist, and drill-based education, compared with the education of the more affluent that features critical thinking, creativity, the arts, and greater opportunity for choice and self-direction. While this approach is used by many so-called education reformers today and in the practice of some charter and other public schools, this "pedagogy of poverty" increases what Kohn calls the "learning gap" between poor children and more wealthy children, even if the drill-based instruction produces raised test scores. This is a strong and brief article that carries a punch.
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- Poor Teaching for Poor Children (article link) - http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/poor.htm
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