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Diverting the Pipeline Happens in Shifts
The Departments of Education and Justice have taken steps to help schools divert the school-to-prison pipeline. How will your school respond?
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Pushed Out
Zero tolerance policies were supposed to end school violence. Instead, they’re pushing students out of school and into the justice system — and children of color are paying the highest price.
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Cultural Responsiveness Starts with Real Caring
Culturally responsive teaching is really about building relationships and validating students. Ensuring the academic success of students takes care and a little tough love.
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Suspending Hope
Schools in Maryland and Connecticut are rethinking suspension policies and practices.
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The Educator in the Mirror
Being an effective ally for all students means honestly examining your practice as an educator.
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Get Where You Need to Go
Manuel J. Fernandez makes cultural responsiveness a "principal" priority.
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What’s Your Plan for Managing Difference?
Need tips for managing the dynamics of a multicultural, multiracial class? Here are four ideas to help you put a plan in place.
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Lessons From Home
Education reformer Lisa Delpit encourages teachers to discover who their students are outside the classroom.
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Mary Church Terrell
In this lesson of the series, “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice,” students will read and analyze text from “The Progress of Colored Women,” a speech made by Mary Church Terrell in 1898. Terrell was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), an organization that was formed in 1896 from the merger of several smaller women’s clubs, and was active during the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
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The Infamous N-word
No matter the spelling or context, the n-word remains intertwined with American racial tensions past and present.