Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It "blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students and students of
America Indian culture and traditions have survived an unusual amount of oppressive federal and state educational policies intended to assimilate Indian people and destroy their cultures and languages
In this first of a series on critical race theory in education, Fletcher (Michigan State U. College of Law) uses fictionalized narrative concerning a Michigan Indian tribe, loosely based on the Grand