Lisa Delpit

of this issue such as, “The Other Struggle For Equal School: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era” by Ruben Donato, “Education For Extinction” by David Wallace Adams and “Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom” by Lisa Delpit. These are three informative readings that clarify how Whites have advantages within education over people of color and different ethnicities. In Donato, Adams’, and Delips’ readings, they all discuss different forms of segregation within…

Lisa Delpit’s reading Multiplication is for white people (2012) is a reference constantly used in class in order to understand the issues within the education system. Delpit focuses on contemporary public education amongst urban students and how it affects the achievement gap society are rapidly using as a label. She states “there is no achievement gap at birth”. Delpit strongly believes “every human brain has the built-in capacity to…

Imagine being separated from others because of your race. Being left out because your black and too dark. How would you feel? This situation is called segregation which is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. People are still trying to solve the effects that segregation did to others such as people of color. Though most schools became diverse and mixed races everywhere, many people are still said to be emotionally segregated…

In this book she wrote, “It is possible and desirable to make the actual study of language diversity a part of the curriculum for all students” (Delpit 1998). This idea reflects my experience because Seymour is a dual language school that fosters to both English and Spanish speakers. Therefore this quote is pretty much the philosophy of this school. They believe that if a child speaks two languages…

Midterm School Observation School “culture” is an important aspect that is often overlooked when thinking about educational settings. Students’ identities are either validated and encouraged or rejected and ignored by school environments that are created by how a school is set up, teacher-student interactions, and many other things. I had the opportunity to visit a school with the purpose of looking for how English Language Learners or Bilingual students were welcomed and represented in that…

teachers, students, parents, and their school produces a context within which significant culture learning can occur” (Textbook page 112). Creating an understanding of the culture in which your students are from allows you to properly teach them. As Lisa Delpit puts it, “They knew the students. That’s really the only way to teach...Teaching is all about telling a story. You have to get to know kids so you’ll know how to tell the story, you can’t tell…

Admittedly, it is within human nature to group similar people together as a way of organizing and making sense of the vastly diverse world around us. Psychology provides an explanation for this through the term social-categorization: the innate cognitive process in which people make sense of the complex world they live in by allocating similar individuals into social groups. Albeit being a natural human tendency, social grouping, more often than not, turns into stereotyping and discrimination.…

In many high schools across America you can hear the same resounding chant in the halls: “I hate school!” Even those who are doing well, as in have high letter grades and are ‘succeeding’ in school, are not exempt from this view. I have heard many people say after high school, “I love learning, but I hate school.” Learning and understanding new concepts is something people strive to do throughout their lives but in a school environment where grades are the most important part of the education…

For our Multicultural Curriculum Project, we will be working with the book, Rain of Gold. Over a three-week span we will be working with 9-12 grade high school students, ages raging from 14-18. The book titled, Rain of Gold, written by Victor Villaseñor, tells the story of two different families during the 1910 Mexican Revolution. The author references three generations and their migrations between Mexico and the United States. It represents a detailed account of life in Mexico and California…

Helen Keller was an extremely inspirational woman who had to overcome both deafness and blindness, and who found success and happiness in her life. Recalling her own personal experiences, she believed that anyone with determination and willpower could control their fate and succeed in life. But as she travelled and spoke with others throughout the country, she realized her view on achievement was severely limited. Keller realized that she had many opportunities in life that others did not,…