Doing School By Denise Pope Summary

In the book Doing School, Denise Pope, the author and a Stanford Graduate with a PHD in curriculum and teaching, claims that students are no longer learning anything about the subjects they take, or learning the core values/behaviors that the school is supposed to teach. They are in fact, learning the values/behaviors that schools despise and are not retaining any of the information taught to them. The reason they are not learning the correct values/behaviors, or retaining any information in school is because of the grades or in her words the “Grade Trap.” The “Grade Trap” is the idea that in order to get a good future you have to get good grades by using the values/behaviors that the schools despise because they will do whatever they can to