He quotes the Education Trust president Kati Haycock; "Many educators believe that poor kids and Latino kids and African American kids just aren't capable of learning to the same levels as other kids," which is demonstrated in their placement while in lower levels of education. ... When asked how success rates are in her English classes, Professor Ann Lewis describes how her students have been discouraged by past English classes, arriving in her class with the mindset that "they are failures before even taking the [class]." More minorities make up her lower level Engli...

• Word Count: 1872
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That's why schools in the US do not enforce the learning of a second language; they feel that English should be the universal language and that everyone should learn it. Most other countries learn two or even three languages, including English. ...

• Word Count: 1542
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Those who were able to learn and open their minds through reading textbooks and learning new skills, had to distance themselves from their own identity and culture, this meant that a lot of young people were alienated from their own culture and started to undermine their own traditional beliefs. ... Racist Ideas In the past, the English had equated blackness with death and evil with their interactions of diseases and biblical writings. ... With this in mind, a famous English naturalist, Charles Darwin came up with the hierarchical structure of different races where the British were at the top...

• Word Count: 2491
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Therefore hip-hop should be considered beyond its original status of a genre but as an essential learning tool to understand a consistently misunderstood and isolated faction of people. ... Its primary language is African American Vernacular English 2. ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ostrowski, my English teacher (in 8th grade).. .1 had gotten some of my best marks under him, and he had always made me feel that he liked me... ... Malcolm spent his time in jail educating himself and learning more about the black Muslims, who advocated racial separation. ...

• Word Count: 2034
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• Grade Level: High School

Jo Ann Robinson was a well educated professor at Alabama State College where she taught English from 1949 until she resigned, because of increasing political pressure by a special state committee, in 1960. ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School