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 »
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 [...]
An intriguing piece of a lesson plan I’m constructing…
Posted in Social Justice Education, tagged culturally relevant curricula, culturally relevant pedagogy, lesson planning, mathematics, minimum wage, poverty, social class, Social Justice Education on October 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Necessary Background Information: Students will find that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has calculated that one-third of a family’s total income could be set aside for food. This led to the original poverty line at $3000 in 1963. This and other information surrounding this activity lends itself easily to fraction, decimal, and percentage manipulation, and [...]
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