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Short Bio: Lisa Delpit grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the wrong side of Dalrymple Boulevard, which once separated the white communitee from the black community. She graduated from Antioch College with a bachlors degree in education and taught at a open classroom school in South Philadelphia. After 6 years of teaching she decided to stop and persued her masters and doctoral degree from Harvard in curriculum, instruction, and research. Dr. Lisa Delpit received the award for Outstanding Contribution to Education in 1993 from Harvard Graduate School of Education, which hailed her as a “visionary scholar and woman of courage.” Her work on school-community relations and cross-cultural communication was cited when she received her MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. She has also written a couple popular books along with some controversial articles.Delpit’s work has focused on the education of children of color and the perspectives, aspirations, and pedagogy of teachers of color. She has also used her research in ethnography to spark dialogues between educators on issues that impact students who are underserved by the national educational system.

Important Topics: - The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children - The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African American Children (1998) - The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom (2002) - Other's People's Children: Cultural Confilct in the Classroom (1995) - Teachers and Students treated as objects - Ten Factors Essential to Success in Urban Classrooms - Improvment of urban schools -

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