The Atlantic: “‘We ask teachers to be a combination of Albert Einstein, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King Jr. … What is the effect? The effect has been teachers are incredibly stressed out.’”
The Black HomeSchool: “Schools are now realizing that mispronouncing a child’s name, whether accidentally or negligently, is a form of micro-aggression that can affect the student’s academic progress.”
The Establishment: “I know how rare it is that a school district would be so dedicated to all of its students—not just in words, but in deeds. And I hope that other schools see this love letter, and know that they too could be receiving these from the parents of their black and brown kids. From the parents of their neurodiverse and disabled kids. From the parents of their poor kids. From the parents of their LGBT kids.”
Huffington Post: “As it turns out, all students, including white ones, gave their black and Latino teachers better scores in a range of areas―such as their ability to challenge and care for them―than they gave their white teachers.”
Medium: “While the overall rate of incarceration of all youth has decreased by 55% since 1997, the rate of incarceration of youth of color continues to rise.”
Mic: “If successful, Gill’s campaign could wipe significant chunks of Islamic history from the state’s education standards by functionally eliminating current lessons about Islam as a requirement.”
National Public Radio: “While the Bailey kids are doing well academically and on a path to college, they are also shouldering the work of the integration part of this program. METCO is not a swap. White kids do not take the bus into Boston.”
neaToday: “Studies have been done that show the long-term impact of bullying can be tracked well into adulthood. If you’ve had any type of repeated victimization in school, it appears you have real psychological challenges three decades later.”
The New Yorker: “Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools—irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class—are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.”
The New York Times: “The concept of zero tolerance has come to encompass such a broad range of disruptive actions that roughly three million schoolchildren are suspended each year, and several hundred thousand are arrested or given criminal citations.”
The Washington Post: “To have a black professor at Columbia whose very story sheds new light on conventional ideas about race, poverty and drug addiction does more for students of color and Columbia as a community than many may realize.”
The Washington Post:“If exposure to a good role model is enough to lift educational outcomes in children, that would have very different implications for public policy than if inequality stems from deeper, more intractable reasons.”
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