Dear Dr. Al How can teachers help students who may have difficult home lives become successful? A Dear A, The easy answer is to do as much in school as can be done in school. Relieve the children of as much of the additional stress, on top of the already highly unfair and stressful [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Dear Dr Al: Difficult Home Lives
Posted in African American, Black, education, homework, K-12, Poverty, tagged Black, educatioon, K-12, poverty on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Dr. Al: Unaware Oppression – Is it True, Possible, Real, Honest?
Posted in Black, Cultural Identity, diversity, University, tagged Bias, Black, difference, Unconscious Bias on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Dr. Al, Just curious: is it possible for an oppressor to be unaware (or at least, maybe unreflective) it is acting as an oppressor? Or to put it another way, are the consequences the same for the lost people if the oppression is calculated and intentional (for example, U.S. policy to exterminate Native Peoples [...]
Dear Dr. Al: Forming an Academy for African Americans
Posted in African American, college, Cultural Identity, diversity, education, tagged Ethnic MInority, school on August 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Dear Dr .Al, When our class met with the mayor he talked about the possibility of forming an academy for African Americans. Do you think this would be advantageous for the improvement of cultural learning, or do you think this could be detrimental due to the segregation that would be created between Caucasian and African [...]
