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Critical Education: What Is Culturally Relevant Pedagogy?

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The Marxist Attack on Merit in Education

Hudson Billings says studies have several common features, each locates the source of student failure and subsequent achievement within the nexus of speech and language interaction patterns. "The goal of education becomes how to quote fit students constructed as quote other by virtue of their race, ethnicity, language or social class into a hierarchical structure that is defined as a meritocracy," she writes. The Marxist perspective would be that this kind of school has some noble, pure savage culture and there's a need for a critical pedagogy perspectives on it.

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