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ERIC Number: EJ327991
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Lowered Expectations: How Schools Reward Incompetence.
Jackson, Bruce
Phi Delta Kappan, v67 n4 p304-05 Dec 1985
Playing "dumb" can earn students easier classes, lower expectations, reduced pressure, and individual attention. Schools can stop rewarding failure by making remedial classes difficult, backing up homework policies with unappealing alternatives, providing penalties for attendance violations, and deglamorizing alternatives to regular programs. (PGD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure, Rewards, Student Motivation, Underachievement
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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