In "From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work", an article by City University of New York professor Jean Anyon, she explores the caliber of public education by social class. ... Children with wealthy parents, regardless if they attend a public or private school, are expected to grow up, do well in school and attend a four year university right out of high school. ... It would be surprising to hear of a Richmond high school student get accepted into a school such as Stanford with a lack of AP course experience. ...

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New York University's Neil Postman writes in his article "The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School" that "approximately 35 million people have already learned to use computers without the benefit of school instruction. ... According to Stanford University's Larry Cuban He adds, "Schools that bought into the earlier generation of technology are stuck. ... New York University's Neil Postman writes in his article "The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School" that "approximately 35 million people have already learned to use computers without the benefit of schoo...

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Researchers such as Wayne Au, an assistant education professor at University of Washington, Bothell, analyzed 49 qualitative studies to see how high-stakes testing affected curriculum. ... According to Stanford University's Elizabeth Cohen, lecture based, teacher centered instruction cannot teach students to collect, synthesize, and analyze information; this can only be done using cooperative learning and inquiry-based teaching. ...

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One study, at the University of Florida was conducted in which eight to ten year old children, some of them home schooled, were taped on video while playing. ... The researcher, Gary J Knowles of the University of Michigan, states that he has "found no evidence that these adults were even moderately disadvantaged.. ...

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