Date: 10/15/2009 to 11/15/2009
By Christian Feuerstein ’94
Dr. Lisa Delpit, Knight Eminent Scholar and Executive Director for the
Center for Urban Education & Innovation, 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”
Fellowship. Delpit is a Antioch College Horace Mann Humanity Award
recipient for 2003, which recognizes a contribution 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).