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4) Think like Socrates: using questions to invite wonder and empathy into the classroom, grades 4-12
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Education and poverty exist in a highly contested relationship even in the developed world. On the one hand, educational outcomes seem solidly attached to socio-economic status, and on the other, education is often cited as a way out of poverty. Success at de-coupling poverty from educational outcomes varies across the developed world. The issues connecting education and poverty are complex, but the question of the successful engagement of students...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Education
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As culturally-diverse students feel trapped in failing public schools and abandoned by the system, school choice offers a way out and a way up for students who have not succeeded in existing public schools. Many of the intractable problems that plague culturally diverse students are deeply rooted in the poverty, unemployment, crime, racism, and cultural differences that pervade the neighborhoods around them. Educators who work in our nation's schools...