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The Way It Spozed to Be

by James Herndon · 1968

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This work deals with what is still the root problem of ghetto schools: their failure to reach the kids, their obsession with rote learning, and imposed discipline, which only drives kids further into apathy and rebellion.

Subject
education
Themes
teachers
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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