The danger of the white American liberal | Racism | Al Jazeera
The boys’ voices were getting louder. The argument over who had the best design for a sampling probe had devolved into an argument about who’s idea was ”just really stupid”.I sat in the science class, surrounded by Lego at a table designed for eighth graders, listening preoccupied to their argument. My mind was elsewhere, fascinated by the only girl on their team, who was doing something remarkable.My presence in that classroom two decades ago was the result of a nearly two-year journey. As an anthropology student at The College of Charleston, I had designed a project to try to understand the high attrition rate of underrepresented students in mathematics and science.My idea: problem-based learning on cooperative teams, rather than the lecture-based and competitive approaches common in schools.
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