Abstract

Discussion fills the room as the bell rings. Scanning the classroom, the teacher takes in the faces of twenty-one third graders. Eleven African-American, three Hispanic, five Asian, and two Middle Eastern children prepare for the day. Of these twenty-one students, three live with someone other than their parents, five live in a single-parent home, eleven live in homes in which English is a second language, four receive special education services, and more than half qualify to receive a free or reduced school lunch. Their teacher smiles and prepares for mathematics workshop, already posing questions.

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