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The national push for racial equality is propelling some school districts to change. One example is Muncie, Indiana, Community Schools. Officials there plan to appoint a director of diversity ...
Amy Tillerson-Brown, Sharon Fitz and Chanda McGuffin hosted an education forum July 7, focusing on racism in the school systems. The three women will host a second forum Friday, July 12 at 6 p.m ...
[37] [38] Segregating schools is a way in which low income students may be isolated from higher income students, which causes them to receive a less effective education. [39] Students living in lower income communities receive, on average, less investment in their education than students in higher income communities.
Saama Sane said that when he was a junior at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts, a white student repeatedly called him the N-word as he sat at a table in the library. Sane said he ...
Black Lives Matter at School aims to better inform students of U.S. racial dynamics by providing antiracist materials for teachers to incorporate into their curricula. [33] Critical conversations, like the murder of George Floyd, tend to be silenced in classroom settings which stops disagreements, discussions, or debates over certain issues.
Prejudice plus power attempts to separate forms of racial prejudice from the word racism, which is to be reserved for institutional racism. [19] Critics point out that an individual can not be institutionally racist, because institutional racism (sometimes referred to as systemic racism) only refers to institutions and systems, hence the name. [20]
Racial disparities in high school completion are a prominent reason for racial imbalances in STEM fields. While only 1.8% of Asian and 4.1% of White students drop out of high school, 5.6% of Black, 7.7% of Hispanic, 8.0% of Pacific Islander, and 9.6% of American Indian/Alaskan Native students drop out of high school. [6]
For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. Nowhere have school ...