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Articles: A CRITICALLY COMPASSIONATE PEDAGOGY FOR LATINO YOUTH/Building on Strength con Educacion, Respeto, y Confianza (with Education, Respect, and Trust) Authors: Julio Cammarota and Augustine Romero/Ana Celia Zentella Film: Precious Knowledge These authors argue that a one size fits all pedagogy such as ones enforced by the No Child Left Behind Act are not effective, especially when teaching multilingual, and diverse students such as Latinos. They argue that the success of Latino students is dependent on the ability of educators to develop relationships that foster an appreciation of their culture and backgrounds. Educators need to know their students, know where they come from, and their communities. As stated by Julio Cammarota and Augustine Romero " Authentic caring promote student--teacher relationships characterized by respect, admiration, and love, which, in turn, inspire young Latinos and Latinas to better themselves and their communities." In A Critically C...

Articles: Deculturation and the Claim of Racial and Cultural Superiority  by Anglo-Americans/The Indian Boarding Schools. Authors: Joel Spring/Michele Bollinger These authors argue that throughout history in North America, educational policies have helped to destroy the culture, language, and traditions of African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Asians, and Native Americans. As stated by Joel Spring "Educational policies served the interests of those wanting to take advantage of others." Educational policies have served the purpose of proliferating the suppression and exploitation of people of color through the destruction of languages and cultures. Throughout history Anglo-Americans have rationalized the exploitation and cultural intolerance of the groups of people by claiming they were racially and culturally inferior. They were called savages, pagans, and degenerates. As written by Joel Spring "using these descriptors, it was easy for English invaders to turn ...

Article: What "Counts" as Educational Policy? Notes toward a New Paradigm Author: Jean Anyon In the article the author examines the federal, state, and local educational policies implemented over the last 75 years since the article's publication in 2005, and how policies solely focusing on educational reform have not been effective at increasing the educational achievement of students in urban schools. This author argues that their lack of effectiveness is due to how these policies have failed to consider the effects of poverty. The author states that given the evidence, it is not enough to develop and implement educational policies that only focus on increasing academic standards and requirements. Policies should also focus on lowering poverty rates by increasing minimum wage, equal pay, and outlawing hiring/housing discrimination. Talking Points: (1) In the Moving to Opportunity project, why did high school students in the Baltimore experimental group have a mor...

The name of the film is Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth, by the filmmaker Larry Adelman. The film begins by highlighting the explicit differences in health between the United States and other industrialized nations. It points out that although the United States is the wealthiest of the industrialized nations, it's people continue to live shorter, sicker lives. The film argues that the reason why the overall health of our country is the way it is, is because of the level of social inequality and the maldistribution of wealth. As Sir Michael Marmont stated "there are huge inequalities in this society. All this wealth is maldistributed, and I think that is why the U.S. as a whole has relatively poorer health amongst the rich countries." An example of maldistribution of wealth I can think of is in the article; Savage Inequalities: Children in U.S. Schools, where the poorer schools received less than half the computers the wealthier schools received. The film als...

My name is Yanery Garcia Cabral. I am a Registered Nurse, working as a school nurse at The Paul Cuffee Middle School in Providence Rhode Island. I have worked as a school nurse for a year, and so far It has been an experience like no other.  I obtained my undergraduate nursing degree from Rhode Island College, in 2004. I completed my Master of Science in Nursing degree at the University of Massachusetts. In order to work as a school nurse, and obtain certification as a school nurse teacher, I am required to take several courses at RIC. This course will be the first course I take for certification. My hobbies include spending time with my loved ones, going to the movies, and reading a good book.