I enjoyed reading the article by Lisa Delpit although I disagreed with some of her statements. It always bugs me when someone talks about "educating black children" or "educating white children" as though all children of a particular race can be lumped together. As I have stated in class before, in my elementary school of approximately 600, almost all are children of color, almost all economically disadvantaged, but they are fascinating individuals. Our classes are small because we are a Title I school and our teachers are really great about trying to figure out the best way to connect with each child. At the beginning of this school year, our entire staff, including the administrators, visited the homes of our prospective kindergartners (in groups of 3-4, with at least one Spanish-speaking person in each group) to extend a personal invitation to come to Open House and we had wonderful attendance. Anyway, I wanted to learn a little bit more about Lisa Delpit and see what she looked like (inquiring minds want to know...) so I started browsing the web and found a program on NPR that not only had a little interview with Lisa Delpit but Jonathan Kozol as well and I thought I'd share it with the group -
http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tmr_radio/pgm6/guests.html#. Sandi Johnson