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Summary Of Ken Robinson's Changing Education Paradigms
In "Changing Education Paradigms," Ken Robinson argues that schools don’t let kids

be creative and think outside the box.He believes that schools need to change there model into

something more up to date instead of using a system that was built over 100 years ago. Kandice

Sumner, in "How America's Public Schools Keep Kids in Poverty," differs from Robinson's

argument a little bit because she believes that education is power and that the better education

you get the more power and privilege you get from a socioeconomic stand point.Kandice

Summer argues that education is not the same for everyone because many low income schools

don’t get the same resources as other high income schools.Kandice argues that people of power

and privilege

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