Feb
28
We learn from each other
February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I have not blogged much because I have gotten bogged down with the minutiae of surviving my first year of teaching a new curriculum. Still, today, I took my ninth grade students into the computer lab to work on a small project. These students had to look up information about sharks and prepare a PowerPoint [...]
Feb
4
50 Years Later, the same result.
February 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Kiri Davis is a young filmaker, aged seventeen, who has created an eight minute documentary that should ignite a discussion about race in this country. In this 2005 film, Ms. Davis sought to recreate a study conducted by Kenneth Clark during the 1940s to fight school segregation.
You can learn more about this amazing young lady [...]