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Dream Not of Other Worlds

Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School,1970

Dream Not of Other Worlds( )
Author: Diehl, Huston
Series title:Sightline Bks.
ISBN:978-1-58729-716-8
Publication Date:Apr 2007
Publisher:University of Iowa Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $37.50
Book Description:

When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a "Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school's white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach "those children" anything. She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students' ability to learn. With its overcrowded classrooms, poorly trained teachers, empty bookshelves, and meager supplies, her segregated school was vastly...
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Pages:261



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