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Dr. 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” Grant. Most recently,
Delpit has been selected as the Antioch College Horace Mann
Humanity Award recipient for 2003, which recognizes contributions
by alumni of Antioch College who have "won some victory
for humanity." She describes her strongest focus as "finding
ways and means to best educate urban students, particularly
African-American, and other students of color." Among
her publications are Other People’s Children: Cultural
Conflict in the Classroom (1995); The Real Ebonics Debate:
Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children
(co-edited with Theresa Perry, 1998); and The Skin That We
Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
(co-edited with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, 2002).
(305)348-6463
delpitl@fiu.edu
Dr. Wynne, a former high school English
teacher, is also professor in the Department of Educational
Leadership and
Policy Studies at FIU. She taught at Morehouse College for
14 years, where she designed and directed The Benjamin E.
Mays Teacher Scholars Program. She also co-designed and directed
an Urban Teacher Leadership Master’s Degree Program
at Georgia State University. Her research interests include
the instruction of urban children and the impact of racism
in schools. She co-authored two high school orientation texts
and has written articles about collaborative learning, racism
in school reform and language instruction, and teaching urban
children. Having grown up in the segregated south, she is
passionate about creating safe learning communities for African
American children so that they may academically soar.
(305)348-6463
wynnej@fiu.edu
(305)348-6463
salinasa@fiu.edu
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