Note's while reading Boyce, Large, Gilyard, and Aronson

Jerry Large-

Focusing on two different schools- KIPP academy, a middle school in the south Bronx, (most students are black, Hispanic, mostly from poor families)

At KIPP academy, the students would be very motivated in middle school, and then they would fall behind when it came to high school

At Riverdale, the kids worked hard, but they weren’t as academically stressed. As a result, the students at Riverdale did much better when it came to high school and college.

Grit is one of the characteristics of successful people. Here is a list of others- self-control, zest, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism, and curiosity

Study’s show that children who were stressed at a younger age do worse in life overall

Barry Boyce-

-He is saying schools do not give students gifts like being able to calm yourself and regulate your emotions

-Kindness, Caring, Empathy, being able to decenter your own point of view and listen deeply to others”

-He thinks the key to success is having a welcoming education. A comfortable environment.

-He believes yoga is a good way to cope with your emotions and find peace within your body

Keith Gilyard-

-He believes that humanities MUST be included in the school’s schedule. The students have no time to calm themselves down and relieve themselves of the stressful day.

-Getting a chance to communicate with others is important

-The life chances of students in the United States are more dependent on the education and income of their parents more than in any other developed country.

Humanities classes are vital to the process of shaping the critical and productive citizens that we need

Deb Aronson-

-The Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District has been a real success story

-97% of students participating in the program graduated from high school, 70% entered college, compared to 20% nationally

-The program got shut down because the government said it was too directed towards that school specifically. Probably got shut down because they thought it was too racy

-The legislature passed a billed in 2010 making it illegal for courses of programs “to promote the overthrow of the government, to promote resentment toward a race or class of people, to be designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group, or to advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals”

-The governor can withhold 10% of the school districts state aid per month if found violating the law

-2010 was also the year that Arizona sought to tighten the border and drive out unauthorized immigrants

-Acosta thinks that they were targeted because they were blacks and Latinos

-The state wasn’t aware, and still isn’t aware of what the students were being taught. They got scared when black and Latino youth had power. That was scary to them.

-“We have people so poisoned against us that they wont even sit down and talk about what we particularly did that may have offended them” –Acosta

-The students were reading very current material, and some of the authors happened to be black and Latino.

“It boils down to legislative control over classroom content and curriculum and teacher voice” he says “The state took over our space, and then can happen to anyone”