Craig Sautter's article Who are Today's City Kids? Beyond the "Deficit Model" presents criticisms of the deficit model in education, claiming that it only reinforces negative stereotypes about minority and urban youth. As a replacement, an asset model that builds learning strategies around the personal skills, interests, abilities, language and culture of individual students is recommended. However, implementation details are vague, leaving one to wonder if the transition
from a deficit to an asset model would actually be practical.
Essentially, the recommended transition from a deficit to an asset model is flawed because it calls for teachers to ignore the obvious and become a genius at more complex cultural dynamics. At the same time, there's little instruction about how teachers could become these super beings.
Further, it's unclear how could ignore deficits such as the fact that nearly 14 percent of large city students come to school
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