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Notes

¹ School District of Philadelphia. n.d. “OVERBROOK HIGH SCHOOL.” STUDENT ENROLLMENT AND DEMOGRAPHICS. https://schoolprofiles.philasd.org/overbrookhs/demographics.

² Ibid.

³ School District of Philadelphia. n.d. “OVERBROOK HIGH SCHOOL.” OVERVIEW. https://schoolprofiles.philasd.org/overbrookhs/overview

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society.” Illiterate America, by Jonathan Kozol, New American Library, 1986. Accessed 3 May 2024.

⁶  Friedman, Jonathan, and James Tager. 2021. “Educational Gag Orders: Legislative Restrictions on the Freedom to Read, Learn, and Teach.” PEN America. https://pen.org/report/educational-gag-orders/.

⁷ Baêta, Sabrina. 2024. “Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis.” PEN America. https://pen.org/report/narrating-the-crisis/.

⁸ Strauss, Valerie. 2023. “What House Republicans want to do to public education funding.” Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/11/18/what-house-republicans-want-do-public-education-funding/.

⁹ Cornelius, Janet D. 1991. “Slave Testimony: "We Slipped and Learned to Read."” In When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South, 69. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press.

¹⁰ Cornelius, 77.

¹¹ Cornelius, 81

¹² Cornelius, 82.

¹³ Morrison, Toni. 1992. “Black Matters.” In Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 15. New York, New York: Harvard University Press.

¹⁴ Botel, Moten, and Lauren Botel Paparo. 2016. “The Four Lenses of Learning.” In The Plainer Truths of Teaching, Learning and Literacy: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Pre-K-12 Across the Curriculum, 25. Ephrata, Pennsylvania: Owl Publishing, LLC.

¹⁵ “The Four Lenses of Learning”, 29.

¹⁶ The Four Lenses of Learning”, 32.

¹⁷ The Four Lenses of Learning”, 34.

¹⁸ Dweck, Carol S. 2015. “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids.” Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids1/.

¹⁹ Hurston, Zora N. 1934. “The Characteristics of Negro Expression.” America in Class. https://americainclass.org/seminars11-12/artnewnegro/NegroExpression.pdf.

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²¹ Angelou, Maya. 2009. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House Publishing Group.