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A captive audience
As I considered the focus of this discourse on education, I found myself discarding more ideas than I retained. Should I write about how Lewis F. Powell, Jr., a Supreme Court Justice and former tobacco lobbyist, wrote a confidential memorandum in 1971 … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged Activism, Civil rights, Education reform, Frederick Douglass, Human rights, Language, Liberation, Paulo Freire, Slavery, Social Justice, Teachers, Teaching, Writing
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Let my people read
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” by Frederick Douglass When I was young my mind was filled with probing, lofty questions such as “When was the moment that Han Solo knew that Chewy was the one?” and “Just … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil rights, Human rights, Language, Learning, Literature, Myths, Social Justice, Students, Teachers, Teaching, Writing
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Caught in the hustle
“And who’d think in elementary? I’d see the penitentiary, I wish I could take the pain away if you can make it through the night there’s a brighter day.” by Tupac Shakur When I was a kid, maybe eleven or … Continue reading →