While waiting in line for a lift ticket this past winter I passed the time by whistling, "Born to Lose." I don t know why I was whistling that particular Ray Charles song, though I m sure a psychiatrist could tell me.
During a lecture at Roanoke College on Monday evening, Steele presented his research about the impact of stereotypes and how individuals from different identity groups can make up a successfully diverse community.
Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the radically different opportunities his best friend received. After a childhood spent together, Jamie and Reid found themselves on opposite sides of a high school hallway that separated kids based on a misunderstanding of their supposed potential. The gap between the two friends widened as Reid s classes enabled him to pursue an elite college degree across the country studying educational opportunity and teaching.
Then, Reid became a teacher at an under-resourced South Carolina high school where efforts to serve the incredible students were stymied by internal segregation and administrative ambivalence. He was disabused of the Hollywood myth that a good teacher could simply save the day, when each false start with his students forced him to reckon with how much he didn t know. After Reid assigned students a project to create a positive change, they pushed him to figure out how he, too, could make a bigger difference.
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