how can schools channel
“street smarts” into
academic work?

While reading Gerald Graff’s essay, “Hidden Intellectualism”, Graff claims that there are many people in which knows of someone who tends to be vernacular to the point where they are considered to be “street smart”. Graff exposes in his essay that intellect goes beyond the academia and scholarly form of thinking, that knowledge can also take the form within what Graff considers “street smarts”. Graff then goes on to argue that schools should take these “street smarts” and “channel them into good academic work”.

delfino 2: diez in the desert analysis: the story, delfino 2: diez in the desert was really about not giving up! that is basically the theme of the story, and also being more prepared. the plot of the story was about diez, the main character, traveling through the harsh desert with other immigrants. also, that keeping the group alive and getting them to their final destination. the setting of the story took place in mexico in the harsh desert.