Middle-Class Teachers Often Come to Believe That Poor Children Cannot

Multiple Choice

Middle-class teachers often come to believe that poor children cannot learn,and these teachers treat them accordingly.Responding to these expectations,poor children often perform poorly in school.This situation involves a/an __________.

A) tragedy of minuscule proportions
B) poverty repetition
C) cycle of ignorance
D) expectation drought
E) self-fulfilling prophecy