now my heart is a pressed flower and a tattered bible
it is the one verse you can trust
so I’m putting all of my words in the collection plate
I am setting the table with bread and grace
my knees are bent
like the corner of a page
I am saving your place
“cuz the world out there is nothing like our idealistic theories and sanitized classes…”
…the collectivism values I had accumulated collided with the individualistic values of America promoted through education.
Say the words you are writing aloud and let your ear decide what word comes next.
—Charles Simic
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan held a Twitter Town Hall with Latinos in Social Media on Wednesday to discuss Latino education. The tweet above is a statistic from Jose Rico, the executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. He said that the recent jump in higher education among Latinos is most pronounced among Hispanic women.
If you are searching for a space in which you can converse about education, I invite you to my blog. Join me in my journey!
“We always talk about the problem, and we never talk about the solution.”
True. Now where would we find the spaces to talk about the solutions in addition to understanding and discussing the problems? And who would be our allies?
con o sin, somos.
(Source: spilloverfrommyotherblog, via somosinvisible)
