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Delpit, Lisa; White-Bradley, Paula – Theory Into Practice, 2003
In this article the authors describe the programmed and scripted nature of many mandated instructional and "management" programs designed to raise test scores of urban children in low-income communities. They detail the programs' dehumanizing effect on the ways teachers and students interact, and the resentment the programs instill in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Youth, Interaction, Urban Schools