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  08/05/2016       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Given the pace of political events, I’ve decided to stop flooding my Politics category with entries and to instead start a ramble with a political (Continue Reading)

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Classroom control by SRO

  10/31/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A cautionary tale is part of new teacher orientation: third day of class a kid shows up after the teacher has carefully accounted for the (Continue Reading)

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Two New Orleans young people who’ve made a mark

  08/28/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

On the Rachel Maddow show the guest host, Melissa Harris-Perry, interviewed two young people who survived Hurricane Katrina and went back to the city and (Continue Reading)

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  02/18/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Considering a post to flteach citing an article in NEA Today re the school to prison pipeline. I responded describing how Deasy stated that just (Continue Reading)

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A Day Without Mexicans

  01/23/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Reading Diane Ravitch’s blog every day gladdens my heart that so many people are onto the phony reform movement. When I went to my son’s (Continue Reading)

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Evidence for why you shouldn’t ridicule non-standard English

  12/16/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

So important for our teachers to understand, but it’s buried on p. 29 of McWhorter’s The Missing Spanish Creoles: “In Creolophone communities, authors such as (Continue Reading)

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American exceptionalism…. except for you

  12/13/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“Teaching was a brave choice for Forten and other young black women and men. Before the Civil War, antitax southern state legislatures actively resisted the (Continue Reading)

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How We Deal With Racism

  07/15/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Some years ago, I was invited to a TGIF with an administrator, and three other teachers, two of them women. They had a couple of (Continue Reading)

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  07/01/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Picture a 30 something teacher, his school years behind him, confidently assessing his students. He has Black students and finds himself wondering why they frequently (Continue Reading)

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How linguists challenge the racists

  06/07/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

How can linguistics help us understand the education process better? In the early 70s, William Labov tore down the edifice of cultural deprivation as an (Continue Reading)

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Ethnic slurs and sexual harassment

  12/25/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

On flteach there was a thread on discussing race and ethnicity in the classroom. It was started by a teacher who was concerned that a (Continue Reading)

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Reaching Af-Am students through understanding their culture

  02/08/2009       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I thought a while about writing this but I hope that by being so personal, I can get a discussion going among us about how (Continue Reading)

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Minority students – my opening shot

  09/30/2008       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

At my current school, one kid stands out. Everyone knows him. He is doing AP Latin (with me). He does everything, incl sports. He’s very (Continue Reading)

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