Word: barbiana
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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While the statistics cited in Letter to a Teacher specifically address problem of the Italian school system, the boys' observations are relevant to American education, too. Their school, located in a church in the farming village of Barbiana, was started for children who have failed or who have nearly failed public school. Because the parents of girls from town believe that a woman can live her life with the brains of a hen, only boys attend the school, which the authors acknowledge as "racism." However, like Herbert Kohl's sixth grade children in Harlem or the children in George Dennison...
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