Why Urban School Reform Won Work Why do I doubt the currently dominant model for reform?
For the following reasons. The present form of our society has been disproportionately influenced historically by privileged groups. Our economic institutions, legal system, political arrangements, cultural forms, and technological machinery have all been built historically to be operated by people for whom particular forms of reasoning, attitudes, kinds of meaning, forms of discourse, and styles of behavior seem natural and comfortable. Our educational systems are designed, however imperfectly, to inculcate just these forms. Historically, our curricula and our teaching methods, indeed all our educational arrangements, have worked best for students who identify with these forms and learn to excel in using them. Not exclusively, but overwhelmingly, those students are the children of social privilege, the children of families who have succeeded in these same terms in at least one prior generation. I am idealizing and simplifying the real complexity of this picture, but trying to maintain
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