Educators can use this toolkit to reflect on school-based policing in their schools and districts and to conduct a school climate survey among colleagues.
Every time a new study is released showing black students are suspended at far higher rates than any of their peers, the public seems shocked. Words like “race” and “school to prison pipeline” and “discrimination” find their way into headlines—and then the issue fades away yet again.
In this excerpt, Garang tells his story of how he became a lost boy when war destroyed his village. Walking with thousands of other orphaned boys, Garang travels thousands of dangerous miles from southern Sudan to a refugee camp in Ethiopia.
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Mary Williams and R. Gregory Christie (illustrator)
The same limited stories about American Indians persist in textbooks. The National Museum of the American Indian’s new program is looking to change that.
To study immigration with her fourth-grade students, half of whom are from immigrant families, this teacher decided on a class project that went far beyond Ellis Island.
Counselor Torrye Reeves believes there are three keys to keeping parents involved with their kids at school: communication, communication, communication.