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A word from Louis Gray...The Gray's Project

G.R.A.Y.S. Project Inc. (Granting at Risk Adolescents & Youth Sustainability) WWW.GRAYSPROJECT.COM Words from the Founder: Hi Supporters, I would like to thank you all for taking the time to read our newsletter. We continue to offer SAT/ACT Test prep to local high school students from Middleton, Blake, and Jefferson High School in Tampa, FL every Saturday.   We also attended an educational fair through Hillsborough County Public Schools and I am proud to announce that we have signed an agreement with two facilities (PACE Center for Girls & Hillsborough HS) to provide GED Test Prep & Tutoring Services.   Our vision is to promote SUCCESS “One child at a time”. GRAY’S SPOTLIGHT feature this month is Project Promise; an organization that provides opportunity & promise to at-risk/delinquent youth.   The services they provide include mentoring, intervention, and educational support in collaboration with the Federal Title I Student Intervention and Drop
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Florida Damaged message

Florida “Success” Benchmarks Send Damaging Message Submitted by Adrienne van der Valk on February 14, 2014 Blogs and Articles: Race and Ethnicity Announcements Printer-friendly version Imagine you are a child on the first day of school. You sit at your desk, glancing nervously around at your new classmates, waiting to find out what the year has in store. Your new teacher starts to hand out readers. You notice something. She’s handing the white children thicker readers; the children of color get slimmer volumes with larger print, shorter words. This teacher doesn’t know you—but she knows the color of your skin. It’s brown. “But I’m a good reader!” you think. “I read chapter books this summer!” The teacher arrives at your desk—and hands you a lower-level reader. If it doesn’t feel good to imagine that knowing your school expects less of you based on your skin color, consider how it must feel to live it. Yet, for black and Latino children in Florida (more
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Teaching Tolerance

One of the realities of the modern classroom is that talking about LGBT individuals, issues and history can make students uncomfortable. Nervous laughter is common. When I lecture or lead a discussion on the gay liberation movement, I’ve seen students—particularly male students—shake their heads and proclaim their disapproval at the mention of gay men. It’s as if these students feel the need to draw a public distinction between themselves and gay men, ensuring that everyone in the room knows that they’re not gay. I am uncomfortable with these responses, but I think I understand where they come from. Many young male students are still struggling with adolescence and learning what it means to be an adult man. They don’t have a great variety of role models because our society unfortunately clings to a narrow definition of masculinity in which “real” men are understood to be breadwinners, tough guys and ladies’ men who don’t cry, while gay men are defined as emotional, fashion-obsessed,
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Education week-Blogs of Info-for you

Deborah Meier blogs—and debates—with others about what matters most for today's students, educators, and policymakers. Education and the Media Mark Walsh examines news media coverage of education, as well how schools, teachers, and students are treated in popular culture. OPINION Living in Dialogue Science educator and activist Anthony Cody explores education reform and teaching for change. OPINION Of, By, For: In Search of the Civic Mission of K-12 Schools Education activist Sam Chaltain writes about the changing nature of public education and highlights where the K-12 learning revolution is already underway. OPINION OpEducation OpEducation is a roundtable opinion blog featuring a variety of education thought leaders discussing K-12 issues. Politics K-12 This must-read coverage follows federal and state developments in education, with reporters Michele McNeil and Alyson Klein. OPINION Public Engagement & Ed R
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