Overall, I am quite pleased with the gain my students made from the pre to the post test scores. The class of students averaged 49% on the pre-test and grew to averaging 85% on the post-test. Every one of my students registered gains. I believe the fact that everyone made gains is indicative of the [...]
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An Excerpt From A Recent Worksample I Constructed Having Taught…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged African American, American classrooms, assessments, education, Latino/a, Learning gains, social capital, Social Justice Education on April 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Reflections on Sociological Thinking…
Posted in Social Justice Education, tagged education, instructional differences, Max Weber, meritocracy, social capital, social class, Sorokin on January 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
According to Sorokin, a sieve is a control that acts as a sifter in society that maintains and regulates social mobility and actually places individuals in society according to her/his “talents”; in fact, sieves “control the process of vertical circulation”. Sieves typically have a direct relationship with standardized tests. Examples of sieves that Sorokin gives [...]
An Aspect of Assimilation in Schools
Posted in My Life, Social Justice Education, language, tagged assimilation, cultural capital, cultural competence, cultural mismatch, Ebonics, education, Signithia Fordham, social capital, Social Justice Education on December 1, 2008 | 4 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 have spent a bit of time reading and analyzing how many African-American students manage this [...]
More of my story….
Posted in My Life, language, tagged autobiography, discourses, Ebonics, education, history, literacy, social capital on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Literacy Autobiography
One of the most shocking realizations that I have come to in the last year is that I have no recollection of ever being read to as a child by my parents or siblings. I imagine that I was likely read to here and there, but it was apparently so infrequent that I [...]
Is Cultural Competency Just Another Buzz Word?
Posted in Social Justice Education, Uncategorized, tagged Beverly Cross, cultural mismatch, culturally relevant pedagogy, culture, dominant culture, education, Geneva Gay, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit, racial privilege, social capital, students of color, teachers of color on September 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is Cultural Competency Just Another Buzz Word?
As education reform in the United States continues to move, even if the movement is in circles, along with reform comes new buzz words and phrases. One of the hot phrases of today is cultural competency. Educators, teacher educators, and education institutions claim to be in [...]
A reflection on Latinos and American schooling
Posted in Latinos in Education, tagged academic achievement, Angela Valenzuela, education, immigrants, social capital, subtractive schooling on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew Ross
Robert De Anda
CH/LA 450U Exam 1
Question 1: Valenzuela argues that subtractive schooling undermines the achievement of U.S.-Mexican students. What is subtractive schooling? How does it affect U.S.-born Mexican students and immigrant students? Please define terms and provide examples from the book.
Subtractive schooling refers to the type of schooling that divests youth, in this [...]
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