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The difficulty in explaining why so many African American students
do so poorly in school is in peeling back the layers of why their
parents let them. What's even more difficult to explain is how the
1954 US Supreme Court case /Brown/, which was intended to bring
equality to education, actually has contributed to the phenomenon.
THE EDUCATIONAL CONTRACT is a peek into the moral dilemma of a
history that has shaped a cultural pattern of failure for more than
sixty years in inner-city schools. Drawing on her own childhood
experiences in high-poverty schools, and her work to transform some
of the worst performing schools in the United States, Dr. Sharon
Washington presents a look at this pattern of failure through the
lens of a "social contract." All schools have one...an unspoken,
unwritten, but understood set of social expectations-that she calls
an "educational contract." But at failing urban schools-the ones we
see in the headlines for school closures, uninvolved parents,
horrendously low test scores, and violence that has become so
prevalent it, ironically, no longer makes the news-no one seems to
be aware of it. What's more the "parties" of the "contract," the
School and the parents among others, don't share the same values.
The School believes parents should be their children's first,
primary, and most important "teacher." On the other hand, most of
the parents of these schools believe their only responsibility in
their children's educational life is this: make sure the kid goes
to school. Dr. Washington shows that this is a fixable
problem-there are solutions that are possible, plausible, and
doable and which can put inner-city schools on a dramatically
different course. But it will take all of us. THE EDUCATIONAL
CONTRACT is a penetrating and powerful call to action that takes
the conversation of urban public schools to the masses.
'Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a
library...' Deep in the bowels of a New York Public Library lies a
dragon: the monstrous coal furnace that Sharon's father, the
live-in custodian, must feed every night. A moving examination of
family secrets, forgiveness, and the power of language, Feeding the
Dragon explores Sharon's life growing up in the library and the
fire she never allowed to fade.
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