Book contributor joins Howard University professors to talk about the essay in the book that inspired the exhibit and how the africanamerican experience served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. First of all, thank you all for coming out on this rainy evening. I know its a challenge, but i think its well wofrt your time to be here this evening for this discussion. Its my pleasure to welcome you to tonights program entitled historically speaking we return fighting published by smithsonian books its a collection of essays that chronicle the experience of men and women who served the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for civil rights. One of the many things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was a world war i established important questions of citizenship that pave the way towards future progress. Were fortunate to be joined tonight by the museums Dep
The education i was on the board of the Charter School became fascinated by what was going on partly because i think education is so important i think it is our best hope for addressing and equity inside it society and breaking that society a multi generational poverty. There was a mystery that i wanted to solve essentially which was what happen when kids got to high School Everything seemed to fall apart scores seem to be improving at the elementary level and i would go into classrooms and the kids either looked engaged but when you went into High School Classrooms it was a different picture and the scores were not improving. Nobody seems to understand why although there has been a lot of attention on the high school problem. When i stumbled upon really, i cant say i solve this mystery myself but i stumbled upon the fact that the real problems in the problems of the parents in high school. Its different than the Elementary School. Once i realized that and i realize that despite all of
Today with natalie to discuss her brandnew book the knowledge gap the hitting cause of the broken Education System and how to fix it. Welcome. Im delighted to be here with you. Tell me about why you wrote this book in your inspiration. I live in dc i was writing about educational Reform Efforts here of which there were many and also somewhat involved in the Education Reform Movement on the board of the Charter School and i became fascinated because i think partly education is so important it is our best hope to address in equity in society to break the cycle of multi generational poverty and what also was interesting to me but there was another story which is what happened when you get to high School Everything falls apart everything approves at the middle school and elementary level to go to the classroom but then in high school its a different picture and the scores were not improving. And i could not understand why although there has been a lot of attention. So what i stumbled upon
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