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Misguided Reading Policy Creates Wrong Lessons for Students as Writers
Having taught writing to teenagers and young adults at the high school and undergraduate levels for over thirty years now, I have a standard approach to the first few classes: We identify and then unpack and challenge the lessons the students have learned about writing. For these foundational lessons to work, however, I have to gain the trust of my students so that they are open and honest about t
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Banned in the U.S.A.
When students come to my university office for the first time, they typically utter, “You have a lot of books,” followed by noting the clutter. For those students, they cannot see the lineage I can now recognize: Go, Dog. Go!, Green Eggs and Ham, Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, 7000 Marvel comic books, Arthur C. Clarke, and then that day in my high school sophomore English teacher’s classroom duri
Why?
We, the people, wish to right a wrong. Our Neighborhood High School Walter H Dyett High School is under siege. The School Board, Alderman Will Burns, and the Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel have given us ample reason to believe we must save our children, save their […]
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Girl Talk: On Police Brutality & Experiencing Blackness Through My Boyfriend’s Eyes
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. September 22, 2014 12:43 PM EDT I think I may have had a small mental break down last week. I knew it was coming, I was all tight with emotion after some of the responses I received on […]
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Appeals Court Rules that Louisiana Department of Education Violates Louisiana Records Act
Photograph Source The Advocate By Raynard Sanders, Ed.D. | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. September 20, 2014 On Friday September 19, 2014 Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled “in favor” of Research on Reforms (ROR) citing that the Louisiana Department of Education was wrong in not releasing […]
The Euphemism of Spanking (Hint: It’s Actually Assault)
Illustration Copyright Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis/AP Images By Chocolate, Pomp, And Circumstance | Originally Published at Chocolate, Pomp, and Circumstances . September 14, 2014 Imagine: You’re at work. You’re scrolling through Facebook or playing Candy Crush instead of paying attention to your conference call – your boss comes into […]
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10 Arguments Black People Need To Stop Making That Support Racism
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at Clutch Magazine. September 2, 2014 It makes sense that White people use completely illogical arguments to derail conversations about racism, because the current racial hierarchy reinforces White dominance and “White privilege”– so they benefit from it. What makes absolutely no […]