Kids react to books much as they react to their favorite candidates: they like them because everyone else does, adding titles to their favorites list even when they haven’t read them. Voting for a Book, part of the Youth Radio series on NPR.
…or my may end up like Heidi Dalibor.
(Though I guess it’s better than getting hunted down by the Library Ninjas.)
W.E.B. DuBois has said, “being a problem is a strange experience…a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity…”
Problems change, but race is still a problem. And [...]
“So let me get this straight,” I said. “If I were to drop out of school tomorrow and get a job at Burger King, the state would pay for my child care?”
However beneficial we understand parent involvement in education to be, the system we have is not integrated, but segregated.
