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  1. Dec 2024
    1. For educators today, Campbell’s story—and that of other Harlem Prep teachers both known and unknown—can hopefully serve as inspiration, if not practical guidance

      Indeed, Campbell's story and the stories of other well-known and unknown teachers at Harlem Preparatory School have brought us great educational significance. We need to learn from these teachers, so that more teachers can take their teaching positions seriously. As teachers, they need to maintain a humble attitude, and our goal is always to work hard to educate students well.

    2. This idea of a “living, breathing, curriculum” that Jacobs refers to can, in part, be specifically attributed to the teachers—they purposely sought to immerse themselves not only in current events but, most importantly, in students’ lives

      I think every teacher needs to put themselves in the students' shoes and carefully consider why they are doing such things. We need to think from their perspective and use their thinking to solve the problem. Teachers should understand their students and guide them to find better solutions. This is what a good teacher needs to do. We cannot just be a teacher, we must be their spiritual teacher, so that they are willing to share their difficulties with us. Only then can we better help them solve problems.

    3. Harlem, a neighborhood with a long, rich history of activism, was ripe for the emergence of a school like Harlem Prep that would join the commu-nity’s multigenerational activist tradition

      A community with a long history is often excellent because they can make the community more beautiful. With the progress of the times, they can make the community very harmonious, which is why they have existed for so long.

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    1. Unfortunately, public schools rarely engage poor or immigrant parents in the resolution of educational prob-lems, even though their families are most harshly affected by educational ineq-uities.

      This is a very sad thing, public schools do not allow poor parents or immigrant parents to participate in solving education problems, so how can their children obtain better education? How can we ensure that children from impoverished or immigrant families receive excellent educational quality, given that schools have all engaged in such behavior?

    2. In their community, however, they developed a friendship that transcended language, sharing recipes and cooking for each other's families.

      This kind of community is very unusual, their atmosphere is very enviable, their atmosphere is very harmonious, they think of each other and do not help each other for the destination, this atmosphere is very unusual.

    3. chapter I address this question by connecting research on parent engagement to questions about power relationships in schools and describe three imperatives for strengthening the participation of low-income immigrant families in their children's education.

      The factors of family conditions can directly affect the quality and level of education of students. Because families with good conditions may send their children to prestigious schools or private schools, but those from poor families with low incomes may send their children to public schools. This will also be more likely to lead to unequal education for these children, with different quality of education they receive and significant disparities in their educational resources.

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    1. For a generation there has been a hope chat poor urban communities can be transformed by community development corporations p:1;imarily engaged in developing and operating various forms Vo£ subsidized housing.

      Indeed, enabling impoverished cities or communities to be developed, or changing their living conditions, has always been something we want to achieve. We all hope that the living conditions of these impoverished cities or communities or people living in impoverished communities can be changed, but this process may require us to make a lot of efforts to improve some conditions. However, I believe that each and every one of us has the responsibility and obligation to help the people in these impoverished communities.

    2. Second, for the process ro broaden" school administrators, from superin-tendents down to assistant principals and teachers in neighborhood schools, must take on a more active and broadly conceived role at the in-cerface between school and community.

      The school administrators, principals, vice principals, and teachers of community schools all play crucial roles in the school. So they must exert their utmost help and effort to help improve the current situation.

    3. Staff change are a recurring problem. Executives are notoriously indifferent about car-rying through on initiatives introduced by their prede es or

      This is indeed a very bad and difficult problem to solve. This also reminds me of the Chinese government's current situation where government officials can change at any time, and everyone's thoughts and rules are different. Therefore, whose rules should the masses listen to? Perhaps they have just adapted to a certain rule and will change later, which makes the masses very confused.

    4. To this end leadership must bring about shared expectations that a so-cial purpose can be achieved, or as Chong vjews it, generate a belief that mutual effort can be producrive.4

      If the government wants to change something, then the leadership or government personnel must take action together. They need to take action first, so that the people can see that they want to change this situation again. Then the people will naturally be more cooperative.

    5. In many ways schools are a natural focus for community development efforts.

      School means that the students in the school are our future successors, so of course, the status of the school in society is very important, because the quality education of the school produces students who represent our future. If the students taught by the school are all bad students, then our future will definitely be very bad, so we need the school to ensure the highest quality and hand over the best students, so that our future is hopeful.