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Willis Hawley

Willis D. Hawley is a professor of education and public affairs at the University of Maryland, where he served as dean of the College of Education from 1993 to 1998. He has taught at Yale and Duke, and is former dean of the Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt. Hawley has published numerous books, articles and book chapters dealing with teacher education, school reform, urban politics, political learning, organizational change, school desegregation and educational policy. His most recent research deals with the professional development of teachers, the education of teachers (in the
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Indigenous Peoples' History

Illustration of the words "Indigenous Peoples' History" shaped into the continental United States.
Co-hosted by experts from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, this webinar will delve into the ways American history instruction often fails to acknowledge—and contributes to—the erasure of Indigenous stories and perspectives.
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Let’s Talk About Lula

Class discussions about To Kill a Mockingbird typically focus on the book’s white protagonists. This brand-new TT lesson turns the lens by focusing on the perspective of one of the book’s African American characters.
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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Colorblindness: the New Racism?

Teaching Tolerance illustration of 2 students one with dark glasses and other with colorful glasses
Kawania Wooten’s voice tightens when she describes the struggle she’s having at the school her son attends. When his class created a timeline of civilization, Wooten saw the Greeks, the Romans and the Incas. But nothing was said about Africa, even though the class has several African American students.