Multiple Choice
Problems with the way classrooms operate-inappropriate curriculum and instruction, difficulty in teaching conditions, teacher perceptions of student inadequacy, large classes and negative teacher and peer expectations-and the social context thus created suggest that
A) not all problems that contribute to low performance among lower- or working-class children come from outside the schools.
B) conditions for teaching and learning might be altered so that lower- or working-class children are more likely to experience academic success.
C) schools not only re-create many of the conditions that lead to social failure for some groups, but also perpetuate conditions that lead to the success of certain groups.
D) all of the above.
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