(Name-mce) ListServ society's views of inner city parents

[Janet Morrison]

A couple of years ago I had come across some research about inner city parents and reading. The research talked about the impression that society has about how inner city parents don't read themselves and don't read to their children. However, through interviews with individual parents, they not only found that many parents read themselves and to their children, but they also found that society's views of inner city neighborhoods often become the views of the people in that neighborhood. In other words, individuals who read were saying, "I read to my children, but no one else around here does." ...yet many others in the same area said the same thing.
   
  I am desperately trying to come up with the source of that research. It seems like it was in a book...though the entire book wasn't dedicated to that subject. 
   
  Has anyone heard of this or know of other research out there that talks about this kind of issue?
   
  Thanks!
  Janet


If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. 
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr. 
  
Janet Morrison, Ed.D.
Director of Education
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