02732nam 2200589 a 450 991078255970332120230721003717.01-58729-716-7(CKB)1000000000575941(EBL)843112(OCoLC)294858572(SSID)ssj0000141316(PQKBManifestationID)11150872(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141316(PQKBWorkID)10090478(PQKB)10808939(MiAaPQ)EBC843112(MdBmJHUP)muse9189(Au-PeEL)EBL843112(CaPaEBR)ebr10354591(EXLCZ)99100000000057594120060925d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDream not of other worlds[electronic resource] teaching in a segregated elementary school, 1970 /Huston DiehlIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20071 online resource (262 p.)Sightline booksDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-996-7 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Foreword; A Part of Me; Concerning This Little Frightened Child; Reach Up Your Hand, Dark Boy, and Take a Star; Larger Than Truth Can Be; Where Is the Jim Crow Section on This Merry-Go-Round?; The Too-Rough Fingers of the World; It Was a Long Time Ago; Afterword; AcknowledgmentsWhen Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a ""Negro"" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school's white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach ""those children"" anything. She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students' ability to learn. With its overcrowded classrooms, poorly trained teachers, empty bookshelves, and meager supplies, her segregated school was vastly inferior to the county's white elementary schools, and the message it sent her students was clear: ""dream notSightline books.African AmericansEducationVirginiaLouisa CountyCase studiesSegregation in educationVirginiaLouisa CountyCase studiesFirst year teachersCase studiesAfrican AmericansEducationSegregation in educationFirst year teachers371.829/960755465Diehl Huston1948-1500356MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782559703321Dream not of other worlds3727001UNINA