![]() ![]() Ladson-Billings on unethical education practices I do spend a fair amount of my time in schools. We cannot saddle these babies at kindergarten with this label and expect them to proudly wear it for the next 13 years, and think, "Well, gee, I don't know why they aren't doing good." So if anybody gets it, I know that writing project people know language matters. ![]() Ladson-Billings on labeling children "at-risk" The following are excerpts from her speech. Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of two critically acclaimed books, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children and Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms, and has published many journal articles and book chapters. Schools," Gloria Ladson-Billings offered a comprehensive analysis on the state of education.Īmong her main points was that the term "racial achievement gap" unfairly constructs students as "defective and lacking" and "admonishes them that they need to catch up." She suggested the term "education debt," moving to a discourse that "holds us all accountable." In her speech titled "From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Listen to Gloria Ladson-Billings (49 minutes) ![]()
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