Tim Wise

Nicole Pickering
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Tim Wise


1. As for racism, it is typically defined in two ways, both as ideology and practice.
     1. Racism is definitely both ideology and practice. People all over the world are racist and sometimes it can be a practice for them. It seems like these ideas are balancing everything out and making it so it is even for everyone. Balance is being presented in this situation.


2. "White students are twice as likely as their african american or latino counterparts to be taught by the most highly qualified teachers and half as likely to have least qualified instructors in class." 
     1. I was not a fan of this quote at all. It definitely stuck out and caught my eye. It is saying that white students are pretty much taught by highly qualified teachers and the rest of the students are left behind with nothing. It is not like that at all. 


3. It ignores the fact that the average white student in the U.S. attends school with half as many poor kids as the average black or Latino student, which in turn has a direct effect on performance, since attending a low-poverty school generally means having more resources available for direct instruction. Indeed, schools with high concentrations of students of color are 11-15 times more likely than mostly white schools to have high concentrations of student poverty."
     1.  I believe that if performance in school is being affected because of poor kids then something isn't right with that picture. No school should be like that and kids definitely shouldn't be treated that way. It is no ones fault if they are in poverty, but really, what can be done? I also found this quote a bit over the top because the performance in schools should not be determined by how much money someone has.




This piece was easy to read. I understood it very well, but some of the quotes were very disturbing. I know that most of this is really going on in the world, so I think that was why I was able to understand it so easily. But the way that this piece is written makes it sound so much worse.