Comments on: Urban Parents Don’t Care About What Gary Orfield Thinks http://dropoutnation.net/2010/02/04/urban-parents-dont-care-about-what-gary-orfield-thinks/ Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:41:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: miriam freedman http://dropoutnation.net/2010/02/04/urban-parents-dont-care-about-what-gary-orfield-thinks/comment-page-1/#comment-64712 miriam freedman Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:50:56 +0000 http://dropoutnation.net/?p=1241#comment-64712 When I taught in the junior high school in Berkeley in the late 1960's, we had tracking. You can imagine who was in the upper track and in the lower, as Berkeley was a diverse urban setting. I taught both levels and will never forget the parents of my students in the lower track telling me not to lower standards, not to go easy on their kids, but to demand excellence and push their children to learn and thrive. Urban parents are like everyone else, it seemed to me then and still does. They want good education and will seek it out when they can. When I taught in the junior high school in Berkeley in the late 1960′s, we had tracking. You can imagine who was in the upper track and in the lower, as Berkeley was a diverse urban setting. I taught both levels and will never forget the parents of my students in the lower track telling me not to lower standards, not to go easy on their kids, but to demand excellence and push their children to learn and thrive. Urban parents are like everyone else, it seemed to me then and still does. They want good education and will seek it out when they can.

]]> By: Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle » Blog Archive » Read: Snowbound Edition http://dropoutnation.net/2010/02/04/urban-parents-dont-care-about-what-gary-orfield-thinks/comment-page-1/#comment-64705 Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle » Blog Archive » Read: Snowbound Edition Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:56:36 +0000 http://dropoutnation.net/?p=1241#comment-64705 [...] Dropout Nation Podcast on the reauthorization of No Child, along with my pieces this week on charter schools and segregation. The next podcast, on improving teacher quality and performance pay, will be [...] [...] Dropout Nation Podcast on the reauthorization of No Child, along with my pieces this week on charter schools and segregation. The next podcast, on improving teacher quality and performance pay, will be [...]

]]> By: Are charter schools too black? « Joanne Jacobs http://dropoutnation.net/2010/02/04/urban-parents-dont-care-about-what-gary-orfield-thinks/comment-page-1/#comment-64694 Are charter schools too black? « Joanne Jacobs Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:59 +0000 http://dropoutnation.net/?p=1241#comment-64694 [...] “Urban parents don’t care about so-called civil rights activists who work in ivory towers, live in suburbs, release reports on ’segregation’ just in time for Black History Month (wink, nudge), and avoid the worst American public education offers,” writes Rishawn Biddle of Dropout Nation. [...] [...] “Urban parents don’t care about so-called civil rights activists who work in ivory towers, live in suburbs, release reports on ’segregation’ just in time for Black History Month (wink, nudge), and avoid the worst American public education offers,” writes Rishawn Biddle of Dropout Nation. [...]

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