This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, K-12 education, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. It also represents my digital footprint, of life and career, as a community-engaged scholar in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
This is a very powerful personal narrative told by an African woman storyteller named, Chimamanda Adichie. Everybody needs to see this. She illustrates from her perspective as a Nigerian the subtractive power of curriculum on young minds. This a really timely video in light of Texas' recent textbook decisions made by the SBOE.
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