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We just read an excerpt from a book for my "Educational Foundations and Issues" class - it is called "The Intersection of Cultures" - authors name is Spring. It presents the idea that the public educational system in the U.S. does not adequately serve the interests of many students who do not fit into the middle class, Eurocentric environment typical of a lot of schools. Spring discusses the idea of African American, Native American, and Mexican American resistance cultures that have developed as a response - one of the reasons that he gives for "acting white" being a bad thing in the eyes of young minority students is because succeeding in school may alienate students from their families and communities because the student must change to fit the dominate culture of the school.
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