John Gatto is an interesting educational writer and wrote a book about the hidden curriculum in schools, but I can't remember specifically what it talked about. You can read a book he wrote about the history of schooling on his
website. He spent about 30 years teaching, and spent most of his career in inner city schools.
Something related to poverty and education:
[forum]Over the last decade, a series of neuroscience breakthroughs and educational research findings have led to an entirely new understanding of how the human brain learns to read. Millions of dollars and thousands of research papers later, the most important thing we have learned is that the process of learning to read effects the cognitive and emotional development of children much more fundamentally than ever before imagined.[/quote]