My Students Get Inequalities
Ijust started reading Linda Darling-Hammond’s The Flat World and Education (which should be calledA Professorial Whoop-Ass on Equity) while doing laundry when I got to reflecting on my week. This week, most of my struggles came from trying to understand how my personal actions led to some of the triumphs and failures for my students. Things I felt were happening in some of my students’ lives created roadblocks to the journey of my understanding of them. These things were somewhere in the