Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Class and Education

All three of these articles worked well together. They gave three good aspects of ways to look at the education system as a series of values, privilege, and class markers. Anyon's article in particular was very interesting to read. The schools that he compares in this article is a real eye opener about how an education system can really deprive a child of critical resources to achieving "the American dream" while also showing how it can place students in a position of high privilege in resources and critical thinking. This is good in comparing that article to Gorski's "The Question of Class," which also compares children of different social/economical classes. While Anyon's article is primarily based in the classroom, Gorski's looks really at the time spent outside school and goes into depth about after-school activities that effect the resources and development of children. Gorski's article also went into more depth about race and how that can effect a child's learning ability, and resources; like when the black mother was concerned that her daughters were discussing their racists bus driver.

While Laureau's short article was helpful to see what teachers could improve on in not judging their students, and encouraging equal opportunity for the parents and children. Although it did not pose the system of privilege and suppression, which is a critical factor in getting people's attention that there is more of a problem then we see.

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