How can we change this?

As I was reading the "Unemployment Training" article by Martin Haberman I found myself drawing many connections to my student teaching experience. I suppose I always just attributed these things I was seeing as being a part of an urban area, but didn't really think about the role the teachers were playing in this. I totally agree that teachers are instilling these beliefs in their students, even as early as 3rd grade. I think may times they don't even realize it. It really opened my eyes to what was going on, and I thought maybe there were a few times when I let the idea of just showing up count as participating in class. It may be the easier thing to do, but it is definitely not the right or the best for the students. No wonder we have so many problems by the time they reach high school. I wish this weren't a reality in urban schools, but the author's examples seems so prevalent in my student teaching. How can we just set kids up to fail?

I began thinking about the impact this has on science education and how this ideology really puts science education at a disadvantage. As if it wasn't already put on the back burner, but how could one teach science with the ideology of "nowness". I think that science ideas and culture builds on on another. If students aren't expected to remember from on day to another, or even expect they will have to use in the in future Isn't science doomed from the beginning? Science is hard work, we need to be continually using our brains and critical thinking to uncover some of the concepts, "showing up" clashes with this. I feel people keep saying there's no science, but how can science prevail with this culture looming underneath. In leadership class we read an article about how strong the culture of a school is, and how hard it is to change. Perhaps before we can really implement science the way it is intended to be implemented we need to change and bring forth these underlying assumptions that hinder all learning, not just science learning. I think this is the really challenging question. How can one do this? I myself wouldn't know where to start in trying to change this culture if I was teaching in an urban school.