Traditionally in American history class, students first learn about Christopher Columbus and the settling of the New World, then the Revolutionary War, and so on. They learn about heroes like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. ... We do learn about slavery, the civil rights movement, and other events involving minorities, but very seldom during school do students have access to the minorities" perspective of these events. ... In order for the people of this nation to learn it's complete history these alternative views must be present in the classroom, as the classroom is the basis...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I am the only colored student in my class. ... I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me-- although you're older--and white-- and somewhat more free. ... We know that the students are white, because the author states that he is the only "colored (line 10)". ... This effect, in turn, elevates the position of the Harlem inhabitants to a higher plane than that of the college students. ...

• Word Count: 1896
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• Grade Level: High School

I am the only colored student in my class. ... I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me-- although you're older--and white-- and somewhat more free. ... We know that the students are white, because the author states that he is the only "colored (line 10)". ... This effect, in turn, elevates the position of the Harlem inhabitants to a higher plane than that of the college students. ...

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It is important for me, as an African American, to learn more about other African American educators that made a difference for education and to also be a native to North Carolina's neighboring state of South Carolina. ... When the school opened, it only had five African American girls as students and it was until later that the school would accept boys. ... The focus that Mary had on educating her students were on training the girls in the proper way to care for their homes. ... Bethune knew that her school was starting to grow with the population of students increasing, so a la...

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• Grade Level: High School

Booker did not want to work he wanted to go to school to learn. ... He went to class to learn during the day and at night he would clean the buildings. ... There he prepared many students to study at the Hampton Institute including his own brother. ... Washington and his students built the school from the ground up. ... It taught students both academic and vocational training. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This hill above harlem symbolizes a higher class and higher living that the character had finally reached with the white men but still being the only black student in his classes, feels lost and out of place although having earned where he is, his journey there also separates him having had gone through a tougher path then what is created for a white student as shown through the black/white ratio. ... But for this lone student it couldn't be more complicated. ... "I am the only colored student in my class.... I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... In reality there is n...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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During his teaching there, one of the students was Kimberly Wilder who had a learning disability. ... Wilder expressed that rather than teaching students about ignorance, he should be teaching students about the greatness of things. ... Tarkington College is holding back their students from knowing the truths of the world around them. Hartke explains that teaching students about negative aspects and difficult obstacles of life will open up their eyes to the real world. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Marshall attack the "separate but equal" rule by arguing segregation harms minority students by making them feel inferior and thus interfering with their ability to learn. ... By the 1960's several Southern states still had no black students enrolled in public schools with white students. ... Another was a sit-in, when black students sat and waited to be served in the same cafeterias as whites. ... And the movements continued, in 1961 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee )SNCC), campaigned in Mississippi, attempting to register black voters despite intense white resistance. ...

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A story illustrating covert racism might sound like this; when a Teacher says to an African American student that she is shocked how articulate the African American student is. ... In schools, Caucasians are favored more than Hispanic and African American students because of their skin color. ... A well-meaning high school counselor, for instance, may learn the names of all her white students, but barely any of her Latino or African American pupils. The counselor gives the impression that only the Caucasian students exist amongst the other students. This concludes that schools discriminating a...

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I took a previous Cross-Cultural class where we had student from Japan join my class and learn along side us. ... I was paired up with a girl who I spent time with getting to know more about her Japanese culture and she got to learn more about my American culture. ... From our first meeting that day I realized how different both our cultures were and how scary and confusing it must be for her to come all the way from Japan to America and having to learn our new culture. ... It gave me great insight to learning how all cultures learn and adapt to one another and the similarities we do share. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When looking at the two different movements with the students from Biko's article and the movement out of Malcolm X's book, one can see that the two movements almost get viewed the same way. ... When the students formed the SASO movement on college campuses for a great deal of reasons, but there was one reason that really stuck out. This important reason of the SASO was to "Establish a solid identity amongst the non-white students and to ensure that these students are always treated with the dignity and respect they deserve."" ... Biko said "The idea of everything being done for t...

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As a teacher, I need to understand where the student is coming from. I need to try and understand if the student struggles at home or is dealing with issues such as prejudice or even racism. From there I can focus on bringing other students together to understand connections we need to make as humans. We learn a lot of life's lessons through others and not just books or lectures. ...

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These school resources and programs are unreasonably distributed based on the wealth of the school district rather than the need of our nations students. ... However, research indicates that "African Americans tended to be concentrated in schools that are academically inadequate, since those schools with a majority of African American students tended to be vocational or technical, special education, or alternative schools rather than regular schools" ( Nettles & Perna, 1997a, p. 59). ... He is placed in sub-par learning environments, and expected to learn with what he is given. ...

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I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. ... All this poem is made with many symbols, and in an important part of the poem he avoid totally all the adjective and just focused on the verbs: " I like to work, read, learn, and understand life." (588). ... Furthermore Hughes tried to focused on the egalitarianism in what the instructor have as much to teach to the student as the student to the instructor, and what a black could share with a white and a white with a black. ...

• Word Count: 1971
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The students tease me not because I was late, but because my mother is white. ... One advantage of having both a black and white parent is that the child learns to look at both cultures equally. ... One particular student attending a predominately white school commented on the discrimination: "I seem to just accept the fact that it is going to happen sometimes, you have just got to learn to try to ignore it." ...

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DuBois was the only black student in a class of 12 to attend school and was very popular with his white classmates. ... DuBois spent two summers teaching at a county school in the south while attending Fisk in order to learn more about the South and his people. ... DuBois received scholarships to pay for tuition at Harvard and as a student he was focused on philosophy. ...

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This gave her an advantage to learn more at an early age thus enhancing her rather radical political views. After high school, she went on to become an honors student at Brandeis University in Massachusetts from 1961-1965. ... Her life would forever change on August 7th of the same year when a 17-year-old African American student who was heavily armed took control of a courtroom. ...

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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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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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I will be doing an essay on African American theater history. I don't really know much about this topic, but when I am finished, I hope that I have learned a lot. I know that it has been around for hundreds of years and when you are done reading this essay, I hope you have learned a lot. It was k...

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These schools were both for African-American students only. ... The program allowed young people to tour the country in buses, under adult supervision, and learn the history of their country and of the civil rights movement. ...

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In the novel, the principal at Richard's school had asked Richard to give a speech to a large audience of white and black students, Richard refused to read the principal's prepared speech. ... Crane, his boss, tells him that he will be able to learn part of the trade, However, once he starts working there and asks Reynolds to tell him about the work, both Reynold and Pease, his co-workers, immediately change towards him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School