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1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages). |
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text file |
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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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : 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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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Louisa County -- Case studies.
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African Americans -- Education. |
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Virginia -- Louisa County. |
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Case studies.
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Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Louisa County -- Case studies.
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Segregation in education. |
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First year teachers -- Case studies.
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First year teachers. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- Case studies.
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Case studies.
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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 |
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9781587297168 (electronic book) |
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1587297167 (electronic book) |
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9780877459965 (cloth) |
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0877459967 (cloth) |
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