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Courtney Bentley

Courtney is the Director of the Malone Center for Excellence in Teaching and Associate Professor of Teacher Leadership at the University of Montevallo. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Feminist Teacher and The Urban Review. She is the recipient of the 2013 National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Presidential Chapter Award and chairs the Advancing Multicultural Learning Committee for NAME.
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Mónica Ramirez

For more 15 years Ramirez has been an activist for farmworkers and immigrant rights. She is currently acting deputy director at Centro del los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (Center for Migrant Rights), based in Baltimore, Md. She was senior staff attorney and project director of Esperanza: The Immigrant Women's Legal Initiative at the Southern Poverty Law Center. She is the daughter and granddaughter of migrant farmworkers.
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Tracking Derails Diversity

The first day of my second year of teaching, a third-grader walked into class, saw another student and punched him in the nose. He didn’t say anything or give any indication that he was going to do this. It just happened. After cleaning up the blood and redirecting the class, I asked the attacker why he wanted to punch someone else. “He’s Mexican,” he said. “He don’t belong in my class.”
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When Schools Dump Diversity

Teaching Tolerance has reported many times and in many ways that the United States is plunging headlong toward racial and cultural re-segregation. That process took an enormous leap in the wrong direction last week when the Wake County school board in North Carolina voted to dismantle its policy of diversifying the schools.
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David Knight

David Knight teaches at Boston Arts Academy, a public school for the visual and performing arts. Previously, he taught middle and high school humanities in Boston and San Francisco and also has experience in youth development. A graduate of Dartmouth, Stanford and Harvard, David writes on issues related to race, adolescent development and teaching for social justice.
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Elizabeth Platt

Liz is director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School. Previously, she was a Carr Center for Reproductive Justice Fellow at A Better Balance. Her paper “Gangsters to Greyhounds: The Past, Present and Future of Offender Registration,” was recently cited in an opinion enhancing due process rights for convicted persons.