In this segment, Dr. Dan Battey explains what microaggressions are in the context of K-12 learning and how they affect students.
Source: www.decolonizingyoga.com
Education
German universities scrap all tuition fees
“All German universities will be free of charge when term starts next week after fees were abandoned in Lower Saxony, the last of seven states to charge.
“Tuition fees are socially unjust,” said Dorothee Stapelfeldt, senator for science in Hamburg, which scrapped charges in 2012. “They particularly discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up studies. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany.”
Source: www.thetimes.co.uk
Not having access to equal education is a form of oppression.
Teaching ‘The New Jim Crow’
Teaching Tolerance has teamed up with Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness—to offer educators two FREE webinars exploring mass incarceration in the United States and how to teach about it. Don’t miss out on these unique opportunities to hear Alexander speak about how mass incarceration represents a form of racialized social control, one that traps millions of people of color in a permanent undercaste and parallels an earlier system of racial control—Jim Crow.
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Source: www.tolerance.org
Notes towards a Chicano history of the US
Schools in the US teach a White or Anglo American history of the country. Because of White guilt it is full of lies, half-truths and stuff left out. There is much to learn and unlearn:
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Black Angst: Outside The Quite Visible Black Backpack
A professor at Seattle Pacific University recently told me that she requires her students to read Peggy McIntosh’s essay, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.
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educating students cannot simply stop with an acknowledgment about the unearned advantages that Whites have, but educators must also provide a narrative from the opposite viewpoint and a history about what had to happen in order to allow for hierarchies and such privileges. -Angela Tucker
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“My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person, or as a participant in a damaged culture.I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will.” -Ms. McIntosh
Ordinary privileges cannot be had for Blacks, without a fight as this country is founded upon a widespread enslavement and systemic genocidal dispossession of my entire race. -Angela Tucker
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8 of the Youngest Black College Graduates You Should Know
Some of these gifted children started taking classes before they could even legally drive.
Source: www.theroot.com
Social justice class removed as direct result of the systematic racism that it was teaching students about
“Yasab, the student of color, is NOT intended to be muted. If you cannot hear his audio, it is due to an issue with channels on certain systems. He has very important input and I am working on fixing it as fast as I can.”
A couple of articles on the removal:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/arch…
http://news.yahoo.com/popular-seattle…
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/opinion…
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This reminds me of when an Arizona school district canceled Mexican-American studies.
My son has been suspended five times. He’s 3.
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As we talked, I admitted that JJ had been suspended three times. All of the mothers were shocked at the news.
“JJ?” one mother asked.
“My son threw something at a kid on purpose and the kid had to be rushed to the hospital,” another parent said. “All I got was a phone call.”
One after another, white mothers confessed the trouble their children had gotten into. Some of the behavior was similar to JJ’s; some was much worse.
Most startling: None of their children had been suspended.
Tunette Powell’s 3-year-old son, Joah, has been suspended from school five times. (Tunette Powell)
After that party, I read a study reflecting everything I was living.
Black children represent 18 percent of preschool enrollment but make up 48 percent of preschool children receiving more than one out-of-school suspension, according to the study released by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in March.
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Source: www.washingtonpost.com
implicit bias
racial discrimination
Student: Teacher taped my mouth shut
A student says that her substitute teacher duct taped her mouth shut. News 12 New Jersey reports.
See on www.cnn.com
Alabama schools violating federal law by discouraging enrollment of immigrants
SPLC
“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today notified 96 Alabama school systems that their enrollment practices violate federal prohibitions against denying or discouraging the enrollment of children based on their immigration status or that of their parents.
In many cases, school enrollment forms require a Social Security number or a U.S. birth certificate, without explaining that such disclosure, under federal law, is voluntary and not necessary for enrollment.
The SPLC also urged Alabama School Superintendent Thomas R. Bice to ensure that all schools within the state’s 135 districts comply with federal mandates by the beginning of the 2014-15 school year.
“It is well-established law that all children, regardless of their immigration status, have a right to attend our public schools,” said SPLC attorney Jay Singh. “Too many schools in Alabama, however, are not living up to their legal responsibility.”
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See on www.splcenter.org