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Article: Unemployment training: the ideology of nonwork learned in urban schools.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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Before urban educators can teach genuine work values to their students, Mr. Haberman argues, they must first stop reinforcing the anti-work values that currently pervade urban schools.
For many urban young people living in poverty, moving from school to work seems about as likely as having a career in the National Basketball Association. Urban schools struggle and fail at teaching basic skills, but they are extremely effective at teaching skills that predispose young people to fail in the world of work. The urban school environment fosters a set of behaviors and beliefs that enables youngsters to slip and slide through middle school and high school but that also ...