Troubling children
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Description
The author explains how gifted education is the obverse side of the "pedagogy of the oppressed," how it supports racism and classism, and singles out the children of the affluent for training in dominance. In exposing the role of gifted education in propagating social inequality, Goodness Personified questions the academic rigor of such teaching. Margolin slows that, rather than focusing on core academic subjects (math, science, language, arts, etc.