Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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“It is a travesty to expect all children to reach the same standards when only a few receive adequate resources” Asa Hilliard III
Like every conversation about effective schooling and the notion of reform, this conversation, the one about standards, is very slippery and complicated. I struggle to know from which angle to come at [...]
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Posted in Racism, Whiteness, and White Privilege, Social Justice Education, language, tagged academic achievement, African American English, American classrooms, culture, discourses, dominant culture, Ebonics, education, language, Signithia Fordham, standard English on July 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Something that I wish more researchers, educators, and scholars would study and write about is the socialization and assimilation process that students go through during their “education”. For all students, this is a very difficult time and process. Recently I’ve spent a bit of time reading and analyzing how African-American students manage this period of [...]
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Good Intentioned Educators
Good intentioned educators come in all shapes, sizes, colors, religious backgrounds, and people groups.
Good intentioned educators think they’re helping students by telling them to stop using their “broken-English” and replacing it with “standard English” only.
Good intentioned educators think they’re helping by postulating dominant culture norms as “normal” and “good” and everything [...]
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Posted in My Life, Uncategorized, tagged "good whites", African American English, autobiography, Ebonics, education, lynching, sharecropping, Tim Wise on July 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A CursoryEducational Biography
I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Besides visiting other places and vacationing, I’ve lived in Portland all of my life. My parents are both from Texarkana, Arkansas. They grew up in the same neighborhood and were high school sweethearts. Unfortunately for them and for me as a result, they were [...]
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