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How American K|12 education has become a cultural contradiction


How American K-12 education has become a cultural contradiction

Kay S. Hymowitz warns about “the cultural contradictions of American education.” She is rightly, but insufficiently, alarmed.

The Cultural Contradictions of American Education | National Affairs

The conflict between these two areas of middle-class emphasis can be understood as the "cultural contradiction" of American education, and an understanding of ...

The cultural contradictions of American education - School Leader

Thus, we have an American education system in a perpetual identity crisis. Parents, teachers, and students are unclear as to the core purpose of ...

The Washington Post on X: "Opinion: How American K-12 education ...

Opinion: How American K-12 education has become a cultural contradiction https://t.co/imqaKSAE1o.

Are Cultural Clashes over K-12 Normal? - AEI

At different times, in different places, education was consumed by fights over communism, school prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, efforts to ...

Anti-American Ideology is Covertly Creeping into K-12 Curriculum

Contentious and divisive theories have crept into the K-12 curriculum and continue to do so. Many governors, politicians, and parents don't ...

The Cultural Dilemma of the American Education System

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The Implication of Cultural Diversity in American Schools

It has been accepted for inclusion in To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development by an authorized administrator of. DigitalCommons@University ...

Demobilizing knowledge in American schools: censoring critical ...

Controversies have erupted in recent years over the teaching of critical perspectives in United States K-12 schools, particularly related to ...

The Cultural Contradictions of Middle Schooling

Middle schools have been growing in popularity since the 1960s, and they are the only school type in the U.S. actually to have increased in number during ...

Classroom and School Cultures: Contradictions (Part 1)

The question I think about a lot is: Does a school culture influence strongly what values and rituals turn up in academic classrooms?

How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture - Minding The Campus

But most students have not been educated to know them. At best, they possess accidental knowledge, but otherwise are masters of systematic ...

Multicultural Education in the United States | SpringerLink

... America represents a contradictory context for the consideration of cultural diversity in an education system ... American intellectuals had ...

Opinion: The culture wars have come to the classroom. Now what?

Experience demonstrates there is much common ground to be found in efforts to strengthen public schools. Channeling Americans' shared commitment ...

What Is Cultural Competence In Education? Why It's Important

The U.S. is and always has been a country of many different cultures. Students and professors carry their cultural differences into the classroom with them.

Middle School and the Ambiguity of Racial Identity - NCTE

Board of Education (Frankenberg, 2019), and recent events have shown us how profoundly divergent our lived experiences of race continue to be.

Cultural Contradictions and School Leaving: A Case Study of an ...

Instead of focusing on social and academic risk factors that assume the problem lies in the student and his or her family, we examine how the culture and ...

Changing School Culture by Working to Change Existing Beliefs ...

I believe it comes down to beliefs—the deep, underlying paradigms that we hold in the U.S. about what constitutes teaching, learning, knowledge, ...

The Culture War's Impact on Public Schools | NEA

The highly charged environment has also led to marked declines in support for teaching about race, racism, and racial and ethnic diversity.

Schooling and the Empire of Capital: Unleashing the Contradictions

As a consequence, U.S. society has become entrenched in the lan- guage of ... This new culture must be built within the ex- isting culture of a ...