Add to ORKGI began reading Deschooling Society over a cheeseburger in Andy\u27s Grill one night in Institute, West Virginia. I had to make an 8:20 colloquium, so I fought against the urge to dawdle and the alluring jingle of the pinballs. Instead of yielding to lethargy or sport, I struck up a conversation with a young, white woman - a second-year Upward Bound student, one of 11 children of a Lincoln County family. Her people live up a hollow; they got in-door plumbing a couple of years ago. Lincoln County is a coal county; the land is wealthy, the people are poor. Poorness is integrated in West Virginia: black and white, young and old, urban and country, men and women, Baptist and backslider
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This Article examines Ivan Illich’s critique of American schooling and suggested educational reforms...
Since the l980s a steady stream of scholarly works has examined stratification along class lines in ...
People operate under some significant misconceptions in contemporary America. Parents will initiate ...
American minds have been coddled in school and college for at least a generation. There are two kind...
In School Smart, I cap off my career as a student asking questions many do when childhood grows dist...
This Article focuses on two texts—first, Illich’s 1971 Deschooling Society, which calls for abolishi...
This Article focuses on two texts—first, Illich’s 1971 Deschooling Society, which calls for abolis...
For the entire history of American education, the gates to knowledge and power were kept closed from...
Dropout rates are the proverbial canary-in-the-coal-mine. If ever there was a predictor of poverty, ...
This essay, a response to Elizabeth Blodgett Hall’s “The House of Education Needs Overhaul,” observe...
How much can schools improve the life prospects of children growing up in poor neighborhoods? This q...
Linda Scott DeRosier’s autobiographical accounts of literacy attainment in Creeker: A Woman’s Journe...
Between 1950 and the end of the 1970s, schools in Mississippi went through the formal process of leg...
I am grateful for this opportunity to rethink the intertwined issues of culture and race in the prod...
This personal essay depicts the story of an after school program established in the heart of a low-i...
This Article examines Ivan Illich’s critique of American schooling and suggested educational reforms...
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People operate under some significant misconceptions in contemporary America. Parents will initiate ...