But proponents say recognizing black English will only help African-American kids learn linguistic skills-- including standard English--better. ... Black students make up 71 percent of the special- education classes. ... Teachers should recognize that the linguistic form a student brings to school is intimately connected with loved ones, community, and personal identity. To suggest that this form is "wrong" or, even worse, ignorant, is to suggest that something is wrong with the student and his or her family. ... With the Oakland Resolution on Ebonics, the Oakland School Board has...

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However, this proposition could have served as motivation to minority students. ... This hard work is what distinguishes successful students from students that would not succeed in college and would perhaps benefit in the long run from a different form of job training. ... Large preferences often place students in environments where they can neither learn nor compete effectively. " (Source E) Students should be placed in an environment where they are most likely to succeed, and often because of the broad nature of affirmative action, students are harmed instead of helped by affirmative actio...

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In this prejudiced filled world where people are killed for walking down the street while black, I have come to learn the best possible thing to be in this world is white" (Thomas). ... A government study on discipline in public schools states that black students are three times more likely to be suspended than white students. ...

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A teacher in 1905 stated that during the school year while living in the "home" environment offered by the Carlisle School that, "The Indian youth learns English and civilized customs. ... Modern Day Challenges Dropout rates for Native American students are double that of the non-Hispanic white majority. ... While this percentage may seem high compared to many reports, this statistic includes students who may have graduated late or went on to get a GED. ...

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But as they continue to grow, they begin to learn new ways of doing things that stick into their empty brains for life. ... American English, for example, is as a result of the dialect made from the British English by the many immigrants and students that formed the culture of America after some time. ... In the Essay sample of students from, Blessington was forcing poems made by Robert Frost, who evidently is as a great intellectual than the Spaniard poet Julia day Burgos. ...

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The postwar GI Bill sent millions of ex-soldiers to college "often to campuses that had never before been available to students of their means and ethnicity. ... What often makes his stories interesting, and sometimes fascinating, is that the characters are capable of being surprised and overwhelmed by something they learn in the course of the story. They can sometimes grow or learn right before your eyes. ...

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Through this education, different groups of people can learn to reconcile their different identities and create a true democracy, as the African Americans and European-white Americans struggled to do in the United States. ... Nussbaum believes that rightful citizens are born when individuals learn to hold their identity as irrelevant and consider themselves part of a larger group that values the equal rights of all people. ... In her essay, Nussbaum questions the righteousness of having an extreme sense of national identity by saying, "As students here grow up, is it sufficient for them to l...

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Edwin Bancroft Henderson, known as the grandfather of basketball, introduced the sport to his students in 1904. ... We can learn a lot from the obstacles and challenges these pioneers faced, they had no road map or precedent, probably some of those challenges they faced are similar to those we face today. ... At most white colleges, the idea of varsity basketball clashed with the visions of ladylike gentility that they wished their students to embody, and competition was thus limited to intramurals, the faculty at many African American colleges held to a more expansive conceptualization of wo...

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When racial socialization is done correctly young people learn early on about the systemic racism that surrounds them and they are taught the coping mechanisms and skills necessary to survive and thrive in such an environment (Degruy, 2005). ...

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People are usually in the HUB advocating for people to join their sorority, fraternity or organization and some of those organization or groups of Greek life explicitly state they are seeking African Americans, Hispanics, or Irish students. ... Social engineering states that students need to be educated on our nation's history and on the history of the different cultures and races with in our nation. Aside from being educated, students need to also be engineered to function in a democracy by learning the democratic values that will keep our nation together and allow us to strive for a bet...

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A grandmother name Bunny Plaskett, was upset to learn that youth today is using the word. ... That's why I propose the solution that schools teach students more about black history. When I was in school all I learn about blacks history was that Harriet Tubeman freed 300 slaves, Martin Luther King's "I have a speech" and how Rosa Parks started the boycott on buses in the south. ...

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Blacks were kept uneducated they could not attend schools and learn freely, blacks were also unemployed and even if they had a job is was the one's that no one wants to do and it paid low wages. ... Most of the public schooling does not have books less teachers the class are so big and that the teachers can't teach the student they have old books and they don't have updated books so when the black kids take the sat they are not prepared because the lack of resources available to them and s o do poor on the sat and later on they are criteria for doing bad on the test. ...

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Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...

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