Any topic (writer’s choice)

Paper instructions:
Three different articles for each individual article
Identify two main take-aways and explain why you choose it. Respond to one of your peer posts.

1.    Readings
Chapter 2 Darling Hammond  The Anatomy of Inequality: How the Opportunity Gap is Constructed *    Identify two main take-aways and explain why you choose it. Respond to one of

your peer post.

Peer Post as followed:
My two take away quotes.
Denise:

1st take-away
Enormous energy is devoted in the US to discussions of the achievement gap.  Much less attention, however, is paid to the opportunity gap the accumulated differences in access to key

educational resources expert teachers, personalized attention, high quality curriculum opportunities, good educational materials, and plentiful information resources that supports learning

at home and at school.  Compound inequalities in all of these resources, reinforced over generations, have created what Gloria Ladson-Billings has called an educational debt,” owed to those

who have been denied access to quality education for hundreds of years.” (p. 28)
2nd  take-away
Furthermore, students’ willingness to commit to school and their own futures is interwoven with their perceptions about whether the society, their schools, and their teachers believe they are

worthwhile investments perceptions that enable them to invest in themselves.  Thus, the more intangible aspects of school success a student’s dedication to do what is needed to achieve

and knowledge of how to do so intersect with access to key resources such as quality teachers and curriculum, as well as schools’ investments in those programs and practices that can

leverage strong achievement.” (p. 30)

2.    Ben Levin Greater Equity in Education    Include two main takeaways and explain why you choose it.  Respond to one of your peer post.

Tyronie Post as followed:
Take-away Quotes
1st take-away
Having effective classroom practices in all classrooms is an enormous undertaking that involves changing in daily behavior of many thousands of adults, and ensuring that high-challenge schools

are staffed with highly skilled teachers has turned out to be a very difficult challenge in most setting, requiring special measures in every setting. p.g. 2
2nd  take-away
All of this discussion makes clear that the real work of creating appropriate policies and practices in schools must occur in local settings with significant effort over long periods of time.p.g. 2
3.    Silva pp 1-38*
Include two main takeaways and explain why you choose it.  Respond to one of your peer post.

Tyronie post as followed:
Take-Aways
1st take-away
The dream of most of us high school principals is to someday have the chance to start our new school, you hire a faculty from scratch, to design the perfect environment for kids and teachers.

p.g. 18
2nd  take-away
I needed people who has similar philosophical beliefs about teaching and learning and cared about kids in the same ways that I did. But I also needed people who were highly task-focused and

capable of putting into place the often idealism and wisdom, of experience tempered with fresh thinking, of perfectionism mixed with heavy doses of realism, and of people who truly believed

that all young people could be challenged to meet high standards.p.g. 20