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"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."
- Peter S. Jennison
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 Format: Textbook Paperback, 1st ed., 400 pages
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801849217
Release Date: Jan 2, 1995
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This is a collection of fourteen essays. "Among the areas explored are the difficulties in initiating educational reform, the shift toward state dominance of educational governance, the growth of school-provided health and social services, the struggle to develop curriculum standards, the controversy over national identity and multiculturalism, the emergence of a school choice alternative, and the impact on education reform of the six national education goals for the year 2000." (Choice)
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | Introduction | | | 1 | Assimilation, Adjustment, and Access: An Antiquarian View of American Education | 3 | | 2 | Who's in Charge? Federal, State, and Local Control | 25 | | 3 | Attitudes, Choices, and Behavior: School Delivery of Health and Social Services | 57 | | 4 | Changing Conceptions of Educational Equity | 97 | | 5 | Ethnic Diversity and National Identity in Public School Texts | 113 | | 6 | American History Reconsidered: Asking New Questions about the Past | 135 | | 7 | The Search for Order and the Rejection of Conformity: Standards in American Education | 167 | | 8 | Reinventing Schooling | 191 | | 9 | The New Politics of Choice | 217 | | 10 | School Readiness and Early Childhood Education | 243 | | 11 | School Leaving: Dead End or Detour? | 265 | | 12 | Rhetoric and Reality: The High School Curriculum | 295 | | 13 | Literate America: High-Level Adult Literacy as a National Goal | 329 | | 14 | Reefer Madness and A Clockwork Orange | 355 | | Contributors | 383 |
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