There Is No Achievement Gap At Birth Summary

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The rapidly expanding diversity and variety of student pool in American schools due to race and culture challenges not only first year teachers but also experienced educators. So the critical concern related to this diverse classrooms are stereotyping, inter cultural conflict and frustration. To create a classroom environment that supports these diversity lies on teacher so that this sustainability crisis is addressed to meet each student’s personality and to reduce the discomfort of the child in the transmission of culture. Teacher are eye witnesses to the inequality/segregation (educational opportunity, voucher system, industry embedded academies) in the school system. Teachers can be at the forefront in raising awareness to these injustices …show more content…

Schools have to take more drastic measure like using metal detectors and identification card for all strangers. If the child feel insecure in such environment the result is poor education. Stereotyping and frustration generates in such climate irrespective to the intelligence of the students. Delpit’s narrative, ‘There is No Achievement Gap at Birth’ outlines key strategies for raising the expectations of minority black students with research based studies and examples. Through this passage Delpit refutes the myth that ‘black children are innately less capable, they are somehow inferior’, by citing the studies conducted by French researcher Marcelle Geber and William Frankenburg, a professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine. These studies show that genetics and culture are not the problem. The problem is that many poor African American students are simply not being taught (Delpit, “Multiplication is for White People” pg25). In the book Dream Keepers, Ladson-Billings highlights the growing educational and anthropological literature on ways in which school can be made more compatible with the students’ cultural backgrounds. The chapter identifies a lack in the literature on the experiences of African American students specifically, and offers culturally relevant teaching as a way to address …show more content…

These ideas helps to foster the effectiveness with individuals from all socioeconomic backgrounds. According to Payne creating relationships with students in poverty is a key element to student achievement. “Because poverty is about relationships as well as entertainment, the most significant motivator for these students is relationships”(p. 109, Payne 2005). She emphasize that a successful relationship honors and respects individual child and then provides variety of route for educators and institutions to improve the quality of education. In the book letters to a young teacher, Kozol point out that teachers can learn from older faculty especially when dealing with troublesome situations in the classroom. Older faculty are a resource that should not be thrown out of the window. Getting to know the parents of our students is just as important as getting to know the students as elements that can help the teacher better teach his children can be drawn from such knowledge. Reach out and make an extra effort to know "uncooperative parents” often tagged in urban districts as “negro parents not committed to the education of their children”. These parents are sometimes intimidated or weary of the education system and showing them you care will go a long way to gaining their trust as a teacher of their

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