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Study: Teacher Prep Programs Get Failing Marks : NPR

“Right now, much of higher ed believes that it’s not their job to have a teacher be ready for the classroom on Day 1,” says Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Her organization’s study of more than 1,100 colleges of education found that 7 out of 10 programs did not adequately teach candidates how to teach reading. Nine out of 10 did a poor job preparing them to teach basic subjects like English, math, science or history. Training in classroom management and the use of student data was lacking. The damage to K-12 education, says Walsh, is enormous, and she is on a mission to expose what she calls “widespread malpractice”in the field of teacher education.

“School districts are spending billions of dollars to make up for what teacher training programs are not doing,” Walsh says.

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“The uniqueness of AAVE is evident in three areas: (I) patterns of grammar and pronunciation, many of which reflect the patterns that operate in West African languages (for example, many West African languages don’t have English “th” sounds, and in AAVE “th” is rendered with the next closet sound, as “d,” a “t,” or an “f”); (2) verbal rituals from the Oral Tradition and the continued importance of the Word, as in African cultures; and (3) lexicon, or vocabulary, usually developed by giving special meanings to regular English words, a practice that goes back to enslavement and the need for a system of communication that only those in the enslaved community could understand.”

— Black Talk; Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner by Geneva Smitherman. (via howtobeterrell)

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“Not every white person is a racist, but the genius of racism is that you don’t have to participate to enjoy the spoils. If you’re white, you can be completely oblivious, passively accepting the status quo, and reap the rewards.”

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—Mychal Denzel Smith, “White People Have to Give Up Racism” (via zombiemovies)

if you are content to coast within white supremacy - you’re a racist. period. ‘passivity’ mitigates nothing - at best you’re a lazy ass racist

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Malcolm X: Panel discussion, WINS Radio, February 18, 1965

White man: You're doing all you can to encourage it, Malcolm-
Malcolm X: Not encouraging it.
White man: -with your inflammatory and demagogic language-
Malcolm X: No, no, I don't-
White man: Oh yes you do.
Malcolm X: I don't encourage it; but I'm not going to sit here and pretend that it doesn't exist.
Another white man: Don't you incite Malcolm? Don't you incite?
Malcolm X: I don't think so. How are you going to incite people who are living in slums and ghettos? It's the city structure that incites. A city that continues to let people live in rat-nest dens in Harlem and pay higher rent in Harlem than they pay downtown. This is what incites it. Who lets merchants overcharge people for their groceries and their clothing and other commodities in Harlem, while you pay less for it downtown. This is what incites it. A city that will not create some kind of employment for people who are barred from having jobs just because their skin is Black. That's what incites it. Don't ever accuse a Black man for voicing his resentment and dissatisfaction over the criminal condition of his people as being responsible for inciting a situation. You have to indict the society that allows these things to exist.