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school teachers I interviewed at public
and private schools in New York,
Michigan, and Georgia, it also trains
kids to express themselves in the team
culture of corporate America. “This
style of teaching reflects the business
community,” one fifth-grade teacher in
a Manhattan public school told me,
“where people’s respect for others is
based on their verbal abilities, not their
originality or insight. You have to be
someone who speaks well and calls attention
to yourself. It’s an elitism based
on something other than merit.”
“Today the world of business works in
groups, so now the kids do it in
school,” a third-grade teacher in Decatur,
Georgia, explained. “Cooperative
learning enables skills in working as
teams—skills that are in dire demand in
the workplace,” writes the educational
consultant Bruce Williams.
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