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Why Culture Counts: Teaching Children of Poverty
By Sandra K. Darling (Ph.D. '90) and Donna Walker Tileston
Solution Tree, 2008
Culture trumps poverty in its impact on achievement. Culture defines what children will focus their attention on, how they interpret the world to give it meaning, what background knowledge they bring to learning, and how they will value that learning. The focus of our interventions to close the achievement gap must therefore be to attend to the culture of the learner. This book shows how to build the necessary supports to move classrooms from the traditional, Eurocentric model to one that respects and incorporates the cultures of the learners.
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