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Tracking
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Leaphorn sat on a slab of sandstone and considered what these tracks told him. It wasn’t much.
He could guess that the killing hadn’t been premeditated — at least not completely. One who plans to carry a body a long distance uphill over rough ground does not wear moccasins if he has any respect for his feet.
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― Dance Hall of the Dead
― Dance Hall of the Dead
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In addition to labeling kids who learn differently as problematic, sometimes defective, most schools classify, track, and categorize students from very early ages. As an abundance of research studies confirm, these classifications tend to become self-perpetuating and self-confirming. My interviewees illuminate the ways in which grades, tests, and opportunities to learn are often arbitrary or related to class, race, and gender. In the supposed meritocracy of schooling, these markers and estimatio
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― Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture
― Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture
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