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Can Cultural Responsive Teaching improve student outcomes?


Don't kid yourself. When this happened in my city, the mayor was a Republican.

What they all had in common is that they were white.
 
I am getting a paywall. What is it exactly. Citing examples the kids would understand seem a no brainer and normal so is it more than that or what?
 

They are seeing kids embrace learning and reading. Changing test scores takes time.
 
More research: this sounds like part of what being a good teacher is:
graduate.northeastern.edu

Culturally Responsive Teaching: 5 Strategies for Educators

Culturally responsive teaching is more necessary than ever in our increasingly diverse schools. Here are five strategies to consider.
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j brown's body said:
Don't kid yourself. When this happened in my city, the mayor was a Republican.

What they all had in common is that they were white.
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Don't kid yourself.. liberal social policies of the 1960s-1990s were overwhelmingly Democrat sponsored and passed.
And you are still doing it today.
Lowering standards to the point a child can be a senior in high school and be functionally illiterate. 85% of black children are severely lacking in basic reading and math skills.
Democrats cause this with your constant excuse making and lowering standards. And then give them money to college despite functionally illiterate!!
We have small black community colleges that are 90% government funded - with failure rates plus 80%. With those students still getting taxpayer money, and when they fail - you are there to give them more free money to live without working.
And there are not going to be consequences for this???????

Bring on cultural responsiveness. But only if it is going to be the truth, and not more white hating, black excusing garbage that keeps the black population worse than every other race.
 

I have pointed out that Republicans were involved as well.

Either way, I don't know what it has to do with the topic, which is actually offering a solution to the problems you describe.
 
You seem to be very ignorant of redlining practices. The vast majority of Black people don't live in projects. As to the rest of your argument, whether you are conscious of it or not (I suspect you aren't), it's rooted in racism. Programs like TANF, SNAP, and HUD are not limited to Black people. They are income qualified programs and race is not even a factor in them. For example, you don't qualify for more SNAP assistance if you are Black. Thus, what is implied in your argument, is that even though White people can get SNAP and TANF, there is something special about Black people that causes those programs to hold them back while they don't hold White people back. That is racism.

Black people are more likely to live in concentrated poverty than White people because of past redlining. There were parts of town that were simply unavailable to people that were not White. You could not buy a home in those neighborhoods, and you could not get a loan for a home in those neighborhoods if you were Black. That extended well into the 70s and wasn't totally abolished in practice until the early 90s. The end result was Black people were much more apt to be concentrated in poverty and didn't get the build the family wealth that White families built. There is nothing special about Black people. In fact, race is entirely a human construct, it doesn't even exist biologically. If you put White people in multigenerational concentrated poverty, you will see the same problems that you do in impoverished inner city Black communities.
 
j brown's body said:
I have pointed out that Republicans were involved as well.

Either way, I don't know what it has to do with the topic, which is actually offering a solution to the problems you describe.
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No
I said - tell the truth.
Ending the travesty of blacks in America today - means first and foremost addressing the immoral self defeating culture, refusing to accept men abandoning children, refusing to accept that getting pregnant without any way to support a child being the norm.... gang glorification... music with outrageous sexist/violent lyrics. And ending a culture of dependance and beginning a culture of self respect and self reliance.
Return to living off of the government is SHAMEFUL and not "getting what's mine".
 
You seem unable to read.
Nearly all of the projects were destroyed by the 1990s.
OBVIOUSLY I was speaking on how it all began.
 
Gentrification is what we used to call redevelopment. You have a home in the inner city that is worth 120k. You would like to move to the suburbs to get your kids in a better school district, but you can't because you don't have enough equity in your home. All of a sudden, your neighborhood is trendy. Coffee shops are opening up, cafes, its safer, the parks are cleaner and so on. Now your home is worth 380k as is, you don't even have to do anything to it. You sell it, move to a ranch or cape cod out in the suburbs, and now you have 100k to put down on a home there, and you pocketed another 100k - so you are building wealth.
 
iamwhatiseem said:
You seem unable to read.
Nearly all of the projects were destroyed by the 1990s.
OBVIOUSLY I was speaking on how it all began.
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You aren't addressing any of the points I am bringing up. You just have a pre-conceived narrative and you want to stick with it no matter what.
 
ALiberalModerate said:
You aren't addressing any of the points I am bringing up. You just have a pre-conceived narrative and you want to stick with it no matter what.
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What preconceived narrative?
The one where, all along I have provided stats showing?
You don't think passing legislation that gives young women more money to stay unmarried and more money for each additional child they have - not going to have negative consequences?? You think that is a "preconceived narrative" and not accurate?
You don't think packing black people in like sardines in concrete buildings away from the rest of society in the 50s and 60s and giving them enough money to live on without getting a job is a narrative?? And not what happened?
You think black teens where over 80% of them are severely lacking in math and reading skills is a problem??? Or just a narrative??
You think a culture that encourages child abandonment, encourages illegal activity and discourages education and hard work a narrative?

Wake up.
The white knighting left effectively destroyed the black race, and still are today.
That is not a narrative. That is a fact.
Oh - but MAGA is racist,
 


You're forced to move out of your own neighborhood, which, since it involves owned homes worth at least $100,000, isn't exactly an area of concentrated poverty, due to a new concentration of wealth.

Yes, they can move to an area that might have better schools, but (1) I don't think this impacts many people and (2) whites then tend to flee that area, taking the prospect of greater wealth with them.
 

When whites flee an area, whether it's the inner city or the suburbs, they take businesses and wealth with them.

This, not blacks moving in, is the cause of a community's decline. We've seen this over and over again. The tax base declines, government services, like schools, decline and the area becomes a dumping ground for addicts and the poor.
 
True, but only a small part of the overall. Pretending that is the main reason is silly.
The main reason for blacks being massively behind other races in America is primarily due to social policies of the 60s and forward, and a crushing, self defeating culture.
A culture that does absolutely nothing to denounce widespread child abandonment
A culture that glorifies criminality - gangs and drug dealers as people to look up to .
A culture that glorifies anti-social behavior, discourages education and hatred for other races.

And a liberal culture that insist on excusing and ignoring everything above while lowering standards to hide the fact blacks are doing so poorly... and provides handouts and housing after they so predictably fail.
 
So many posts, yet none seem to be discussing the actual topic of the OP...
 
zincwarrior said:
So many posts, yet none seem to be discussing the actual topic of the OP...
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lol, many white posters here seem to think that black culture does not extend beyond single moms living in poverty and collecting welfare checks.

This suggests that culturally responsive education should extend to adults.

Beyond that, the number of blacks are decreasing while mixed-race, Latino and Asian and African immigrants are on the rise. To make this a black issue is somewhat dated.
 

I suggest this book Ghettoside, A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy. I was so impressed by it, I read it twice. I think it will show you that ghetto culture isn't quite what you think it is. I say this with all due respect and understanding of where you are coming from. The link is gifted.

What you think about dangerous inner-city neighborhoods is wrong

"Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy has spent more than a decade in her city's most dangerous neighborhoods, with killers who are more scared and embarrassed than they are brutal; mothers who do everything they can but still lose their kids to the streets anyway; neighborhoods wracked by violence, where nearly everybody is a good person trying to do right; dead and wounded who are no more drug dealers and gang members than they are saints; adolescent hookers with more courage than most cops; cops who see their responsibility to protect the neighborhood as a holy mission. She brings them all to life with grace and artistry, and controlled — but bone-deep — outrage in her new book, "Ghettoside.""
 
On balance, the benefits of gentrification always outweigh the costs.

"As appealing and as plausible as this story may be, it’s an urban myth. The best empirical analyses conducted by urban economists have failed to detect a rise in displacements within gentrifying neighborhoods. This finding goes so much against conventional wisdom it seems impossible, but it’s true. As a matter of fact, researchers find that poor residents are more likely to stay put as their neighborhood improves. Moreover, the benefits of gentrification, in terms of reduced crime and better amenities, more employment opportunities, and reduced commutes are rarely, if ever, considered by naysayers."

Eisenberg Report: Gentrification is Good

Over the past few decades, the term “gentrification,” i.e. high-income persons and households moving into poor minority neighborhoods, who, in doing so, push out significantly poorer lifelong residents, has become one of the most negatively loaded words in urban circles. Almost everyone has...
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Gentrification is beneficial on average, studies say. That doesn’t mean it’s not painful for some.

Newly-released research found that gentrification produces mostly positive effects for original lower-income residents, but that doesn’t mean there are no losers. Rather, neighborhood change is far more complex than the typical narratives let on, and there are a lot of ways to decipher and judge...
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You can't have investment in an underserved community without pushing up property values. You can't improve an underserved community without private investment in it. There is no way around that. As to white flight, there are more minorities now that live in the suburbs than in the inner city. For example, we live in an inner ring suburb of Kansas City. The high school our kids went to is a majority minority high school. It is also a good school district, and our neighborhood is safe and walkable. I don't think many people are moving out of Northern JoCo to get away from minorities (this isn't the 70s anymore). If they move further out, it's because they want a larger home. In these older inner ring suburbs, the vast majority of homes 2 to 3 bedrooms, 1 to 2 baths, and a single car garage. The kind of homes that were built in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

Class seems to be the biggest divide these days. People are fine with minorities living near them so long as they are in the same class as they are. What they don't want are poor people moving near them because they think it will drive down their property values, and they have classist views towards the poor. For example, Minneapolis now has some of the most affordable housing relative to incomes in the United States. This is because they banned all zoning that discriminates based on class (for example, bans on multifamily housing, on street parking, and so on). Because of this, it also has one of the lowest inflation rates of any major city. This is also why Houston, despite being the 4th largest city in the country, and by any measure, a global city, enjoys relatively affordable housing relative to income.

Minnesota YIMBYs charting path forward after unsuccessful legislative session • Minnesota Reformer

The movement to build more homes entered the 2024 legislative session with the backing of an unusual coalition of influential lobbying groups and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. None of the coalition’s main priorities made it across the finish line, however. Now, the group is reflecting...
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I am no fan of Bernie Sanders, but one thing he gets right is class is by far the biggest division in our society, more so than race or ethnic identity.
 
It makes my point actually.
In Larry Elders Book - "10 things you can't say in America" - one of those is black culture is a major problem. - He writes "blacks that grow up anywhere in America that is not inner city - they succeed and fail exactly the same as whites. "Outside of inner city black areas - there is no measurable difference between the races.
THAT IS BIG.
What that tells you, is that all of the problems of the black race - only occur in inner city areas. Nowhere else that is more or less than other races.

Democrats have to own up to the fact that THEY contribute to why blacks are so behind in every measurable way than other races.
Lowering Standards
Excusing their failures as a result of racism, not themselves. You practically make them blameless in all things.
Never-ever bringing up their extremely bad culture.
Never ever actually addressing BLACK MEN wholesale abandoning their children.
No questions asked - endless - supply of money/grants that enables them to fail without consequence.

Until inner city blacks admit THEY THEMSELVES contribute to their problems - and Democrats admit they also contribute to why they fail -- nothing is going to change.
 

The author of Ghettoside spent years in the inner city talking with people there and reporting on issues there.

What does Larry Elder know about it?

He seems to contradict himself. If blacks not living in the ghetto don't exhibit ghetto characteristics, how can it be black culture?

I strongly recommend you read her book.
 

Property values tend to follow white people and white people are always fleeing black people.

There tends to be a tipping point for whites when blacks move into their community..

I know. I taught in one that changed from white to black. It was in Baltimore County, next to the city. Blacks moved to Essex, in Baltimore County to get away from the city. (The influx of black females caused our school test scores to go up) Whites fled to northern parts of the county. Blacks have followed. Whites there are now moving north to Harford County.

As whites flee, property values decline and as the tax base declines, the neighborhood does too.
 
And I strongly recommend you come to terms with the reality that the Democrat Party is wholesale keeping black people down.
I gave you all of the reasons, and all you can do is talk about some book.
I gave stats, figures and presented an argument you cannot argue against.

Again, as long as inner city black culture exist, and liberals think they are saviors and excuse/ignore all of the problems, exacerbate those problems by lowering standards and handouts - taking away consequences and make them blameless, no matter what -- blacks in America will never get out of their hole.
 

I've given you an opportunity to better understand urban culture, if you want to stick to ideological cliches, that's your choice.
 
j brown's body said:
I've given you an opportunity to better understand urban culture, if you want to stick to ideological cliches, that's your choice.
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And there you go again.
I gave stats, percentages and facts.
You call that "idealistic"
It is the only way you can attempt to argue against the fact the Democrats both destroyed the black race in America - and are continuing to keep them down.
You have no argument.
 
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