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“We’ve been trained to believe that talent is something we are born with, that it comes in the genes”. Talent is about having both skill and passion for something it could go both ways, some could say that talent is inborn and skills is taught, but in reality we get better at something we do and work hard and "set a mind for perfection

Multiplication is for white people" page–150

"Freedom Schools" were temporary, alternative free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States.

The conscious gap in eduaction

An eduaction in equality

As all good, experience teachers know, there are many ways to make school feel like it is a part of real life.

"Multiplication is for white people" Page--59 It is the duty of the good teacher that he or she should teach students in such a way that they do everything in a interpretive manner.

there is no doubt that all humans are capable of learning

page 28 --"multiplucation is for white people"

human learning occur as part of education, personal development, schooling or training. it may be goal oriented and may be aided by motivation. it is not the color or race that proves our learning deficiencies, like it is thought in our society. it is human capability to learn

Multiplication is for White People

In her new book, Delpit highlights 10 factors that foster excellence in urban schools, while exploring the connections between racism and special needs placement. In the introduction to her new book, 'Multiplication Is for White People': Raising Expectations for Other People's Children, Lisa Delpit describes her response when Diane Ravitch asked her why she hasn't spoken out against the devastation of public schools in her home state of Louisiana and the efforts to make New Orleans the national model. She explained to Ravitch that she has been concentrating her efforts where she feels she can make a difference: working with teachers and children in an African American school.

Those poor little children suffering in those low income homes, with no fathers, with the violence in the communities, with no one to help them with their homework; we can’t expect too much of them. If we have to test them, it’s in their best interest to encourage them to stay home on testing days so they won’t be stressed. Page 6

Multiplication is for white people by lisa delpit Children of single-parent families suffer measurable harm. Some people claimed that growing up in a fatherless home was the major cause of child poverty, delinquency, and school failure, Studies based on data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. One found that black children are much more likely than white children to be taught with workbooks or worksheets on a daily basis. The other revealed a racial disparity in how computers are used for instruction, with African-Americans mostly getting drill-and-practice exercises (which, the study also found, are associated with poorer results).So they should make a strategy to help poor kids catch up .

There is no achievement gap at birth

That black American children as young as six months old developed significantly more quickly than did white American infants.

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teach for america's approach to eliminating eduactional ineqaulity has not changed

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