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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: interesting article from TC-Record
Ruby Payne says that teachers who understand the world their students live in will be better able to build a relationship with students that helps them connect to school.? That strikes me as sensible and helping teachers? be more open to their students seems terribly important.? RP says she came to this understanding based on her realization that she didn't understand poor people? Distilled down, the authors of the TCR article simply repeat? criticisms of RP that have been made in TCR before:? RP has a schematized understanding of poverty and poor people and that it's those exploitative rich people and those uncaring public officials that are the real problem anyway. Paul Tough had an article in NYT a few years ago that covered that ground nicely.? I worked in a school district that gave us a workshop that used tapes and materials by RP.? It seemed to me that RP's work is less about poverty and to some degree less about poor people and more about being open to students.? I think that's why it resonates with teachers and administrators.? NCLB aims for structural changes in schools to make them more effective in helping poor children succeed, but not everything about poverty and poor people is about NCLB and RP and the debate around her are at the periphery of issues concerning NCLB.? Art -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Bernstein <kber@earthlink.net> To: arn-l@interversity.org Sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 3:43 pm Subject: [arn-l] interesting article from TC-Record which is free this week. It is a study of the work of Ruby Payne. This is especially relevant at the time of reauthorization of NCLB, given that part of the justification for the law was to assist children living in poverty who were not being served. http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=14591 teacherken aka ken bernstein Kenneth J. Bernstein ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com
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