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Milton Alan
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“The negro is entitled to full economic and political rights as an American citizen.”
“Part of what academics do is generate ideas and teach. The other, perhaps more important part, is to play the role of “the Bu*l*hit Police.” Our job is to look at the ideas and plans interested parties put forward to solve our collective problems and see whether or not they pass the sniff test. Austerity as a route to growth and as the correct response to the aftermath of a financial crisis does not pass the sniff test.”
― Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
― Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
“Teaching is a human cognitive skill that develops over the course of our lifespan. And at the heart of it all, teaching is neither an independent act nor merely a tool. It is an interaction between a learner (or many learners) and a teacher. But each one of those understandings runs counter to how we currently think about and evaluate teaching.”
― The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education
― The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education
“We can’t complain that students are point-grubbers when we give them extra points to grub.”
― Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
― Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
“We find aspects of the market model for education to actually impede the academic effectiveness of schools. Specifically, while reformers laud the operational autonomy granted to independent schools,41 the evidence analyzed in the following chapters actually shows that such autonomy is associated with less effective teaching, with schools using their freedom to hang onto outdated methods and to avoid staying current on the professional practices embraced by public schools.”
― The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
― The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
“the confluence of racial prejudice and conservative politics is the new racism. It’s a product of almost a half-century of ethnic discourse and coded race-baiting that has remade racism into a set of ideas jointly demonizing nonwhite culture and activist government. These ethnic-racial-political stereotypes have become staples of modern racial discourse, and now seem like self-evident truths to a staggering four out of five Republicans. It is now virtually commonsense, at least among the GOP faithful, that minorities fail, and they succeed, as rugged individuals.”
― Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
― Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
SIHS Mr. Turner
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Group for summer reading of "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race" by Dr. Beverly Daniel T ...more
SIHS Mr. Turner 2015
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St Ignatius High School Student's summer reading project. This group is intended to be used as a starting point for student's summer reading choices. ...more
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