What exactly does Diversity mean today in schools?
"today, notions of diversity are broader and more complex. Not only are the students more likely to be multiractial or mulitethnic but they are also likely to be diverse along linguistic, religious, ability, and economic lines that matter in today's schools"
This is different from the olden days, teachers today have to teach children who represent an incredible range of diveristy. Not only are student of different races and ethnicities but there are students whose parents are incarcerated or drug-addicted, whose parents have never held a steady job. These issues can pose problems with dealing with these children. Children are now labeled with varies disabilites and have to struggle with these lables. Diverisity is not just a race issue anymore. Children come into classrooms with money issues also, you can have an extremely rich, and on the other end extremely poor child in the same room. It will be the teachers responsiblity to make sure that both of these students are treated equally and fairly when at this mutal place. That is what I think Ladson-Billings is trying to say when talking about diversity today. That it is much different then in the past, yet we still need to treat all these issues equally and fairly so that all students feel free and welcome.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Blog 4
Why was literacy and education so important for Enslaved Africans in America?
Literacy and Education were very important for the slaves to receive because with the power of oral or written language they had more opportunities to escape to freedom and have more rights. When the first slaves were brought to America from Africa they had little to no oral language, they were stripped of their names and given new names. They were placed on plantations were “plantation owners were in constant fear of slave revolts and, consequently, denied their workers any form of education”, it was said that “there was a general fear that literacy would expose the slaves to abolition”. As a result a law was passed that it was a crime to educate slaves. This is why slaves struggled to reach equality. It was important for them to learn to read and write because with this power they were able to understand more things and in some cases they were then able to purchase their own freedom. Even after they were “freed” they still had to struggle with things such as “in various northern colonies, free blacks were barred from voting, attending the militia, sitting on juries”. Education was hard for the free blacks to obtain; they were segregated from the white schools and given very little funding. Without this funding and being segregated, education was a fight for these people. Through time and effort the black people eventually were granted the choice of attending white schools and were given many more rights.
Literacy and Education were very important for the slaves to receive because with the power of oral or written language they had more opportunities to escape to freedom and have more rights. When the first slaves were brought to America from Africa they had little to no oral language, they were stripped of their names and given new names. They were placed on plantations were “plantation owners were in constant fear of slave revolts and, consequently, denied their workers any form of education”, it was said that “there was a general fear that literacy would expose the slaves to abolition”. As a result a law was passed that it was a crime to educate slaves. This is why slaves struggled to reach equality. It was important for them to learn to read and write because with this power they were able to understand more things and in some cases they were then able to purchase their own freedom. Even after they were “freed” they still had to struggle with things such as “in various northern colonies, free blacks were barred from voting, attending the militia, sitting on juries”. Education was hard for the free blacks to obtain; they were segregated from the white schools and given very little funding. Without this funding and being segregated, education was a fight for these people. Through time and effort the black people eventually were granted the choice of attending white schools and were given many more rights.
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