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Milton Alan
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This book is about what my colleagues and I call identity contingencies—the things you have to deal with in a situation because you have a given social identity, because you are old, young, gay, a white male, a woman, black, Latino,
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“The children said together, “And the better they feel, the safer we are.” “February, translate that.” “Da mo’ betta dey feels, da mo’ safer we be.” “Nice.”
― James
― James
“That is, contrary to the dominant thinking on this issue, the data show that the more regulated public school sector embraces more innovative and effective professional practices, while independent schools often use their greater autonomy to avoid such reforms, leading to curricular stagnation.”
― The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
― The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
“We would like to believe that if the polity understood that race-baiting continues to be widely practiced, people would repudiate it. Yet many whites may be so sure racial discrimination is not a problem that, when told it is, they will reject this information and compound their support for the discrimination.”
― 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
“Rather than say, “In the real world you only get one chance,” perhaps our most truthful and most helpful message should be “In the real world, retakes are often available; you just might have to ask for them and put in some additional work.”
― 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
“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
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