http://gothamschools.org/2012/07/10/educators-look-for-help-making-the-most-of-cultural-differences/ Fri, 24 May 2013 03:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://gothamschools.org/2012/07/10/educators-look-for-help-making-the-most-of-cultural-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-377929 Anonymous Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:44:00 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=87298#comment-377929 Educators looking for help in making the most of cultural differences should remember,”there are many roads which lead to Rome and it is not always desirable to take the royal road.” A viable, meaningful, and effective community school, must include curriculum to inspire not only its spanish-speaking students, but its Black dialect speakers of African American Vernacular English,(AAVE)..The President of the American Educational Research Association,(AERA), Dr. Arnetha Ball, says”Once teachers learn more about the vernacular, they can begin to understand what the students are trying to communicate and how that can be translated into academic English. How that knowledge can actually enrich the education they’re receiving at school.” The book”The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement:Failure of America’s Public Schools to Properly Educate its African American Student Populations” will be available on Amazon.com, in late November, 2012,  Its a must to read!

]]> http://gothamschools.org/2012/07/10/educators-look-for-help-making-the-most-of-cultural-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-377676 Lackawanda Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:33:00 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=87298#comment-377676 The book”The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement:Failure of America’s Public Schools to Properly Educate its African American Student Populations” will be published and available on Amazon.com in November, 2012..The book substantially addresses the viability of a scientifically proven reading program for Black culturally different, inner-city non-mainstream students…

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