“They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they’re destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late [...]
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March 15, 2009
A Call to Overhaul
President Obama has said that the nation must overhaul its education system. “It is time to give all Americans a complete and competitive education from the cradle up through a career,” Obama said. “We have accepted failure for too long – enough. America’s entire education system must once more be the envy of the world.”
Students [...]
February 17, 2009
Who Keeps the Dreams of the Dreamkeepers?
On our professional development day (Monday, February 16th), we were asked as a staff to jigsaw the book The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Glo Ladson-Billings. The book is a little old and from 1994. I read it years ago but didn’t remember much about it. When I read about educating African-American students these [...]
