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1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages). |
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Sightline books. The Iowa series in literary nonfiction |
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Sightline books.
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Print version record. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Summary |
When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a "Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school's white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach "those children" anything. She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students' ability to learn. With its overcrowded classrooms, poorly trained teachers, empty bookshelves, and meager supplies, her segregated school was vastly inferior to the county's white elementary schools, and the message it sent her students was clear: "dream not of ot. |
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African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Louisa County -- Case studies.
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Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Louisa County -- Case studies.
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First year teachers -- Case studies.
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EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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African Americans -- Education.
(OCoLC)fst00799600
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First year teachers. (OCoLC)fst00925790
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Segregation in education. (OCoLC)fst01111221
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Virginia -- Louisa County.
(OCoLC)fst01206595
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Electronic book.
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Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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Other Form: |
Print version: Diehl, Huston, 1948- Dream not of other worlds. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2007 9780877459965 0877459967 (DLC) 2006031401 (OCoLC)71778980 |
ISBN |
9781587297168 (electronic bk.) |
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1587297167 (electronic bk.) |
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