has anyone read- THe Dreamkeepers: successful teachers of African American students??? questions on it.....?

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is it easy to read?
how long is it? can someone summarize some of the key points?

did it take u long to read?

Answer 1

It is relatively easy to read (right in the middle on most measures of difficulty; see the first citation below) and 208 pages long. To read several pages from the first chapter of the book, click the second citation below.

Here is a review that will help you decide whether you want to read this book or not.

Reviewed by Charles Donaldson

An African American boy who was born in California in 1988 is three times more likely to be murdered than to be admitted to the University of California."

That statistic, drawn from Fortune magazine and cited in the opening chapter of The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings, seems particularly disturbing now that the UC Regents have acted against affirmative action.

African Americans, who have suffered through historic denial of equal opportunities in American education, see quality education as the route to social and economic success. However, nearly 40 years after the Supreme Court demanded changes to provide equal educational opportunities for all, African Americans are finding fulfilling that educational dream is more elusive than ever, Ladson-Billings says.

But she set out in her book to show that black and white teachers of African American students can make a difference, and she provides much anecdotal evidence to support her view.

Her successful teachers do not believe "African American children are exactly like white children but just need a little extra help." They "recognize African Americans as a distinct cultural group," something Ladson-Billings says American education in general refuses to acknowledge. The successful teachers build on distinct cultural characteristics of African American children by taking such characteristics into account in curricular planning and classroom practices.

The heartening material in The Dreamkeepers for community college faculty is that teachers described by Ladson-Billings exist and can make a difference in public schools.

And as equally heartening is that what these teachers do is special but not unique. Using different approaches to teaching and discipline, these teachers achieve the same ends by their enthusiasm for their craft, for their subjects, and for their individual student's achievements.

Some seem to be cheerleaders. Some seem to be hard taskmasters. But all make both the student and the subject seem important.

Ladson-Billings, now at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was a teacher and supervisor in the Philadelphia public schools for 10 years before earning a master's degree at the University of Washington and a doctorate from Stanford. Five of the eight [elementary] teachers who are subjects in The Dreamkeepers work in the California school district on which Ladson-Billings based her doctoral dissertation. . . . Its strength is that effective ways to teach can be adapted to all levels of education, and this book spotlights teaching that works. [See third citation below.]

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has anyone read- THe Dreamkeepers: successful teachers of African American students??? questions on it.....?
is it easy to read?
how long is it? can someone summarize some of the key points?

did it take u long to read?

Answer 3

Ladson Billings Dreamkeepers

Answer 4

It's because AA take education for granted, while Africans don't. And African/black immigrants want to make something better of themselves. Most African/black immigrants, want a good education to be rich, so that they can return to their countries and help others out, to try to make their country a better place. Also Africans/black immigrants aren't lazy. They're really hard working. They're respectful, their parents are much stricter and expect more from their children, so they kind of whip them into shape. African/Black immigrant parents, most of them don't take ****! @ Lovely bunnies STOP USING THE BLACK CARD! IT'S PATHETIC!!

Answer 5

i have not read it sorry

Good luck with it