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How realistic is our dream of educating to the extent of their potentialities children who live in poverty? Reading some of the recently published accounts of what hap- pens in classrooms in big city ghettos and other disadvantaged areas gives one a feeling of hopelessness. Just try reading such accounts as Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Stair Case (1964), Robert Kendall's White Teacher in a Black School (1964), Eliza- beth M. Eddy's Walk the Chalk Line (1965), James Herndon's The Way It Spozed to Be (1965), Margaret Anderson's The Children of the South (1966), Herbert Kohl's 36 Children (1967), Jonathan Kozol's Death at an Early Age ( 1967), and Robert Coles' Dead End School (1968). Even though I fear that the picture presented by these accounts is fairly realistic inso- far as the great bulk of the education of disadvantaged children is concerned, I do not believe that our dream is an impossible one or one that we should surrender easily. Certainly we get a glimmer of what might result from a more optimistic assessment of the potentialities of disadvantaged children from such work as E. R. Braithwaite's To Sir, With Love (1959), Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson's Pygmalion in the

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Author

E. Paul Torrance

Publisher

National Association for Gifted Children; SAGE Publications (ISSN 0016-9862)

Published

1969

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)