24 Facts About Delpit

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Lisa D Delpit is an American educationalist, researcher, and author.

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Delpit earned the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship for her research on school-community relations and cross-cultural communication.

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Lisa Delpit spent her childhood years on Lettsworth St in "Old South Baton Rouge, " the first black settlement in the city.

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Delpit recalls a Baton Rouge where her mother could not try on a hat in the department store and where black children were unable to attend school with white children.

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Delpit remembers black nuns who told her 'Act your age, not your color' because of the then internalized views in society concerning black people.

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At only the age of seven, when her father died of kidney failure because he had no access to a dialysis machine, Delpit remembers the local hospital having a separate ward for colored patients.

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Delpit was one of the first black students to integrate St Anthony's High School, a Catholic high school.

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8.

Delpit attended Antioch College in Ohio, which was known at the time for its radicalism.

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9.

When Delpit attended Harvard Graduate School of Education to pursue master's and doctoral degrees in Curriculum, Instruction and Research, she came to understand the importance of students learning to write in meaningful contexts.

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Delpit went on to explore the novel views acquired about culture and learning by way of a fellowship she received which facilitated her work in Papua New Guinea.

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11.

Delpit's research has been on elementary education with a focus on language and literacy development.

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12.

Delpit has researched issues relating to race and access granted to minority groups in education.

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13.

Delpit is founder of the National Coalition for Quality Education in New Orleans, and co-sponsor and developer of the Conference on Education for Liberation at Georgia State University.

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Delpit has won an impressive amount of awards for her work on teaching and educating urban areas and diverse education systems.

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Currently, as an author, educator, and mother, Delpit continues to cross lines and challenge the status quo as she engages in discourse and advocates for educational practice geared towards students of color.

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Delpit explores stances taken by teachers towards black children within the classroom and emphasizes how essential it is for teachers, both black and white, to communicate effectively and positively with black students if they are to achieve academic success.

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Delpit suggests that "the teacher can not be the only expert in the room" and students should be able to display their own expert knowledge in the classroom.

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Delpit argues that teachers simply "adopting direct instruction is not the answer".

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19.

In Lessons from Teachers, Delpit emphasizes the importance of teachers altering practices in urban schools.

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Delpit asserts these principles challenge teachers to revolutionize education by counteracting the negative impact of stereotypical values attached to students of color in the American system.

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21.

In Educators as "Seed People" Growing a New Future, Delpit discusses the significance of educators taking on positive attitudes towards students of color.

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22.

Delpit maintains educators can no longer continue to question whether low income students of color are capable, but must instead create rigorous and engaging instruction based on the students' cultural, intellectual, historical and political legacies.

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Delpit asserts educators have much to learn from pre-integration African-American institutions in which Black intelligence is affirmed and which provide students with the motivation to achieve.

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Delpit discusses how certain schools got rid of different things in the school system to try to raise Math and Reading score.

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