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[|Pedro Noguero] Pedro Noguera, an expert on school reform, diversity and the achievement gap, delivers the sixth annual Walter N. Ridley Distinguished Lecture at the University of Virginia. Noguera titles his talk, "A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education," mirroring the name of a public policy group he helped to form. He advocates opportunities and positive program developments backed by policy changes as better ways to address problems facing schools than narrower measures driven by testing and test scores.

Noguera is a professor at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. He is director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education. He also holds a part-time position as a high school teacher.

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http://thedirty30sclub.com/blog/2012/04/what-this-anthropologist-learned-from-a-group-of-african-children/ // An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each other’s hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that as one could have had all the fruits for himself, they said: “UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad”? // // **UBUNTU in the Xhosa culture means: “I am because we are”.** //

// “We are one—we are all connected. A simple gesture carried out by one person creates a ripple effect through the fabric of mankind. Something I do will somehow affect you someday so it is of utmost importance that we are mindful of what we say and how we behave.” // Chiao Kee

// “… competition benefits one, co-operation benefits all. My personal view is that competition carries the energy of lack, implying there is not enough. Co-operation, on the other hand, carries the energy of abundance—that there is plenty to go around, that no one has to go without in order for someone to have something.” // Chiao Kee

[|**Multiplication Is for White People': Raising Expectations for Other People's Children**] //By Lisa Delpit The New Press, 2012// //"Delpit makes the case that African-American students do not achieve to their potential because they're hindered by "society's deeply ingrained bias of equating blackness with inferiority," the effects of stereotype threat, and curriculum that is not meaningful to them. More simply, she argues, they are not being taught effectively." Education Week//