Lower Expectation for Students May Lower Results
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Can a school dramatically affect a child's academic career and their future employment opportunitites by expecting to little from them? This week NPR New's radio program All Things Considered hosted by Madeleine Brand and Robert Siegel tackled this heated topic as they discuss the learning experiences of Asian and Dominican students.Can such stereotypes become part of our cultural scripts that reinforce certain myths of racial differences? Can these stereotypes harm students by placing pressure on students to perform or met unrealistic goals? Can these stereotypes limit a student's learning capacity by limiting their ability to grow by tracking them into remedial classes?
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Sanchez, C. (n.d.). At School, Lower Expectations Of Dominican Kids : NPR. Retrieved August 3, 2009, fromhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111436534&ft=1&f=1013.
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