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I liked this article I liked jeans opening statement " It's no surprise that schools in wealthy communities are better than those in poor communities" I agree with her. They way you are brought up has everything to do with how you learn and how you grow. Her work was fascinating to me. To make it better however i think she should have studied at a school with extreme poverty. She started at just under middle class then went up. In reality there are school where home lives are much less than middle class. I think that information would have made this article really complete.

Here are the quotes that stuck out to me.

"In the two working-class schools, work is following the steps of a procedure. The procedure is usually mechanical, involving rote behavior and very little decision making or choice...When the teacher went over the examples with them, he told them what the procedure was for each problem, rarely asking them to conceptualize or explain it themselves:"

This shows that they way the students learned their assignments in a procedure form is also they way the learn to work in real life. These kids will grow up and be so used to procedures they wont have any real explainations to what they are doing. This feeling will carry on to the jobs they may aquire. When the teachers don't ask questions they leave the kids hanging and although they are learning a concept they are never fully understanding it.

"Don't cut into your clay until you're satisfied with your design."

If i heard a teacher say this I would start to get tense and worry if my design was good enough. It should be ok for the kids to mess around with their clay before satisfyed with it so they can use more creativity. Not wait and have to plain out in their heads exactly what they want. I feel like this is the opposite of what a teacher should say.

When talking about a science project "the teacher said, "It tells them exactly what to do, or they couldn't do it." "

This was sad to read because this shows the teacher has no belief in her students, its like shes saying they couldn't actually do something on their own. This is the wrong attitude to have when teaching. If the kids grow up thinking they need such specific instructions for everything how are they supposed to gain common sense for the real world?