Comments on: Reasons To Be Cheerful http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/06/reasons-to-be-cheerful/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:03:38 -0500 hourly 1 By: carol http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/06/reasons-to-be-cheerful/comment-page-1/#comment-4777 carol Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:13:21 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1380#comment-4777 As the first African-American president, Obama will be uniquely positioned to use his bully pulpit to exhort parents, particularly minority parents, to uphold their responsibilities to foster their children’s moral and intellectual development. Done right, this could be a powerful complement to whatever formal policies he puts forward. ~~~~ People can't honestly believe that the black community just needs somone to tell parents to take care of their kids and it will magically happen, do they? Sometimes I wonder if the leaders in education ever actually spend time with the people they claim to want to help. If they did they wouldn't make such ridiculous statements about the type of change urban schools need. As the first African-American president, Obama will be uniquely positioned to use his bully pulpit to exhort parents, particularly minority parents, to uphold their responsibilities to foster their children’s moral and intellectual development. Done right, this could be a powerful complement to whatever formal policies he puts forward.
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People can’t honestly believe that the black community just needs somone to tell parents to take care of their kids and it will magically happen, do they? Sometimes I wonder if the leaders in education ever actually spend time with the people they claim to want to help. If they did they wouldn’t make such ridiculous statements about the type of change urban schools need.

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