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MAKING THE GRADE Cure sought for ailing schools
The Times Picayune, New Orleans, La. ^
| Friday, September 03, 2004
| By Susan Finch
Posted on 09/03/2004 11:50:38 AM PDT by jrushing
Registering black people to vote was only part of Bob Moses' job 40 years ago in Mississippi, where he and fellow civil rights activists ran Freedom Schools as an antidote to the poor "sharecropper education" being afforded descendants of slaves.
Now at the helm of the Algebra Project, a Boston-based mathematics program aimed at demonstrating that black students can learn, Moses is at the forefront of a new movement, one to have quality public education declared a civil right.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: algebraproject; civilrights; education
to have quality public education declared a civil right
Just think what the courts would do with that if "a quality public education" was declared a civil right!
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posted on
09/03/2004 11:50:44 AM PDT
by
jrushing
To: jrushing
Cure sought for ailing schoolsSchool choice. Problem solved. The teachers screw off, they join the unemployed.
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posted on
09/03/2004 11:53:26 AM PDT
by
concerned about politics
( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
To: concerned about politics
School choice. Problem solved.
The Unions would never allow that!
They are very afraid of that type of "pro-choice".
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posted on
09/03/2004 11:59:37 AM PDT
by
jrushing
(Democrats=National Socialist Workers Party)
To: jrushing
to have quality public education declared a civil right.If they would bundle that with declaring "having tight abs" a civil right, they might just get my vote!
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posted on
09/03/2004 12:01:07 PM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
To: jrushing
"Boston-based mathematics program aimed at demonstrating that black students can learn"
As if the issue was ever in doubt. Of course black students can learn.
To: jrushing
"Boston-based mathematics program aimed at demonstrating that black students can learn"
As if the issue was ever in doubt. Of course black students can learn.
Why not take on something more difficult, such as demonstrating the blacks can do, on average, as well on standardized tests as whites and Asians?
To: Max Combined
As if the issue was ever in doubt. Of course black students can learn.
Then there is this gem in the article:
"there is the notion that black children can't do well in open inquiry classrooms, (that) they have to have direct instruction, they need to have structured instruction, and they are not supposed to be able to handle instruction in situations where they're asked to think."
This is from the people that are supposed to be helping. Amazing.
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posted on
09/03/2004 12:12:48 PM PDT
by
jrushing
(Democrats=National Socialist Workers Party)
To: jrushing
"aimed at demonstrating that black students can learn,"
How generous of them ;)
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posted on
09/03/2004 12:25:55 PM PDT
by
Kerfuffle
To: jrushing
This is why black people should rise up and sue the Teachers Union for hate crimes in blatant descrimination of not providing an equal education for their children.
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posted on
09/03/2004 2:12:27 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(John Kerry is a Vietnam Traitor)
To: Max Combined
..."the soft bigotry of low expectations." -GWB
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posted on
09/03/2004 4:14:16 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(Justice of the piece)
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