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…
Author: Huston Diehl · Original publisher: University of Iowa Press, 2007 (Sightline Books series) (ISBN 9780877459965)
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