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Download full textBrandau, Deborah – 1996
An ethnographic study examined and compared schooled and non-schooled uses of literacy and literature in a small, rural, all white, Adirondack Mountain community in upstate New York to explicate the way in which low social class and economic status constrain school achievement. More than 75 interviews were conducted over a 3-year period with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Context, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Education
