“NCLB imposes a mandate on schools that is put on no other institution in society: wipe out inequalities while the factors that help produce them remain in place." (Karp, 220)

"In fact they are not educational strategies at all, but political strategies designed to bring a kind of ‘market reform to public education’.” (Karp, 220)

At the end of “How to Destroy a Public-School System,” Denvir touches upon the politics of getting funding for schools. The spokesman for Turzai, the Republican majority leader in the State House of Representatives, “explains that Republican members view every dollar earmarked for Philadelphia as a dollar they can’t spend on their own schools. ‘What makes those kids more important that our kids?’”

According to online resources, the term, white savior, is "in reference to western people going in to 'fix' the problems of struggling nations or people of color without understanding their history, needs, or the region’s current state of affairs." In Anyon and Greene's article, "No Child Left Behind as an Anti-Poverty Measure," and in both online articles, the white savior narrative is voiced and further explained as into why what one might consider helping might actually be further damaging individuals and communities. 

I chose my scape as the bench on the Morris Woods walk. The image I chose to represent my scape does not show the depth and diversity of the forest, nor the point of view from where I sit. The bench is not in the picture I chose. I am looking around, below, and above, but from the ground, where as the picture is taken from above. The picture does not show the interlocking, interweaving, roots or crunchy, white snow blanketing the ground. The picture does not depict the bitter, ruthless cold.

In the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, I think this year at Bryn Mawr has been marked by a lot of thought around how the movement manifests itself on campus. As a former president of the South Asian affinity group on campus, it was particularly interesting to me how affinity groups on campus responded to the various events on campus surrounding the Confederate flag and the Mainline demonstration. At the time of the Confederate flag incident, many affinity groups were just warming up to new executive boards and new initiatives for the year. However, the campus-wide demonstration and plannings meetings leading up to it were cause for tension among some of the affinity groups, specifically the South Asian and Asian American groups.

Recently there have been discussions about the closing of the Perry House and where a new “Perry House” will reside. These conversations have brought up the possibility of changing the name of the building and what will reside in this new multicultural center. Some ideas have been to name it after Robert Washington, the first black professor at Bryn Mawr or for the professor to at least have a strong say in the books that will be purchased and existing books that will be moved to this new location.

Dell Clark

INTRO

Children as their own "shamanic healers"

"Imaginal coping"

role of fantasy, ritual, play

attention to lived experience of suffering in context

unusual for health programs to address the whole child

need for adults to bravely and respectfully listen

How is Dell Clark's research method like Moll's et al in "Funds of Knowledge?"

Do you think an ethnographic approach is important to the work of empowering learners?

Would you say Dell Clark is successfully "suspending damage," in Tuck's terms?

CH 1

When I was a freshman, I met a upperclassman living in my building. Every time when I happened to see her and wanted to smile to her in the hallway, she pretended not to see me and didn't smile to me with a serious face. I thought that perhaps she treated everybody like this because her own personality. However, one day, I saw she waved to another freshman in our dorm with a big smile. Then, I comforted myself that maybe she and that girl were close friends.

My assumption was proved to be wrong again when I gradually found out that she was really nice to almost everyone in the dorm except Chinese students.

Personal Happiness Scale

1. Morris Woods
2. Glass Staircase in Dalton Hall
3. English House I
4. Campus Center Parking Lot
5. Laboratory in Park Science Building

Comfort Level

1. Morris Woods
2. English House 1
3. Glass Staircase in Dalton Hall
4. Campus Center Parking Lot
5. Laboratory in Park Science Building

My comfort level was influenced by how open each space was and how easily each location was accessible to the outdoors. The place I found the most pleasant, enjoyable, and relaxing was the location that a person was least likely to stumble upon. When I saw people at the other locations, I felt a strange sense of invasion.

Plant Happiness Scale

At the end of last semester, Haverford's BSL created what they called a "Blackout Board." This was an anonymous online response form that BSL created online to allow people to freely express their thoughts about race at Haverford and posted these responses on a bulletin board in Haverford's Dining Center. They generated a wealth of responses from students of color describing bad experiences and micro-aggressions to students describing the lack of communication across racial divides.