professional development
How Stereotypes Undermine Test Scores
Subtle changes in test environments can improve standardized test scores among students of color and girls.
July 6, 2017
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Teaching Toward Liberation With Love: Q&A With Author Jamilah Pitts
Centering liberation in the practices educators already engage with is an essential aspect to achieve a just world.
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Literature
Hercules’ Daughter
Young Delia learns a hard lesson from her papa about what it means to be enslaved on George Washington’s plantation.
January 7, 2019
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Youth—United! #Enough in South Central Los Angeles
Marco Vargas, a leader with Students Demand Action and a senior at Nava College Preparatory Academy, is working to keep his school and his community safe from gun violence.
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Race Matters
Adam Liptak details a recent affirmative action case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He also looks at affirmative action's history, the debates around the policy and considers possible effects of the Court's ruling.
July 7, 2014
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Little Rock 60 Years Later
Looking back and looking ahead at the struggle to end segregated education.
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Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff
Now, more than ever, these vulnerable students need advocates in schools.
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Text-Dependent Questions for “Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control”
These Text-Dependent Questions accompany “Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control.”
July 18, 2017
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A Trauma-informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus
Experts from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network share their recommendations for educators supporting students during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Race Conversation Must Go Deeper
When I was in fifth grade and new to suburbia, my teacher introduced the concepts of racism, civil rights and fairness. And she began the task of helping 10-years olds—all of us white—learn how to talk about race in constructive ways. I’d moved from a gritty urban neighborhood where whites, blacks and Puerto Ricans lived together rather warily. My parents maintained a chilly silence on the issue of race, although they forbade racial epithets; on the street I heard plenty. In this place, the black kids came mostly from the projects, the Puerto Ricans lived in apartments and the better-off among the white families might have an entire house. I knew that race divided.