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High school was like a penance imposed for some unknown sin. Everything I ever learned that was important was learned outside of school. So I never thought to associate schools with learning. (Amy, UMass Boston student) <br>Today's diverse and financially burdened students entera higher education eager to succeed at institutions originally designed for culturally homogenous and predominantly white middle-class populations. They are expected to learn from faculty trained primarily as researchers.
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Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- University of Massachusetts at Boston.;Kingston-Mann, Esther;Sieber, R. Timothy
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612047107
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Education, Science, Technology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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