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Wilkerson, Doxey A. – Freedomways, 1977
The rhetoric of American public education abounds with admonitions to adapt instruction to individual differences and to "humanize" the educational process. However, in practice, especially below the collegiate level, students are guided toward conformity with subjective standards, and those who do not fit are perceived as having deficits to…
Descriptors: Conformity, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences
