In 1944 Who Shall be Educated?, by W. L. Warner, R. J. Havinghurst, and M. B. Loeb, reported research done at schools in the Midwest, the South, and New England to prove that middle-class white children did better in school because tests were biased in their favor; the solution, they suggested, was for teachers to increase their efforts to make the classroom more democratic and offer greater opportunities for social mobility.
Later, Allison Davis's Social Class Influence upon Learning (1949) documented the stages by which elementary students became aware of social class. Her argument was.....
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