If there were an American Idol for public speaking, I would apply to be a judge. At the very least, I would watch it and throw jujubees everytime Ryan Seacrest says he's "out."
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Our Minority Education Partnership released the State of Students of Color report, a book full of data from a local and national level. Take this achievement gap! I can see you and now I will attack you!
Unfortunately, speaking about diversification makes people uncomfortable. Several presenters seemed under tremendous pressure to choose their words carefully. And we were all there for the same purpose: preaching to the equitable-education-loving choir. Still, it led to comments like one pre-service teacher who said, "I took one course on poverty and oppression which really opened my eyes to...for lack of a better word: oppression." For a moment I knew where he was going. Before he derailed, he could have mentioned something about how we as a state and a nation systemically, intentionally under-serve so many of our students and then scapegoat them for, say, our school's failure to make Adequate Yearly Progress.
[sound of my head exploding]
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