Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Ruby Payne’s explanation of how sociocultural realities affect schools and students represents a deficit ideology.
2. Gorski asserts that when we embrace the idea of a culture of poverty, we are, in fact, enabling teachers to rationalize poor students’ failure to thrive academically.
3. Gorski embraces a deficit model of student difference.
4. When explaining achievement differences among students at varying socioeconomic levels, Gorski focuses on resources and Payne focuses on rules.
5. One way teachers can work effectively with students of various societal and economic groups is to express a clear belief that all students can succeed in school, then to set conditions to help students believe it as well.
1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE
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