Education

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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

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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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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

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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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Source: theadoptedlife.com

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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…

 

Source: ladysugatits.tumblr.com

 

This reminds me of when an Arizona school district canceled Mexican-American studies.

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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

 

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Alabama schools violating federal law by discouraging enrollment of immigrants

SPLC

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

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The 10 most segregated urban areas in America

See on Scoop.it – Community Village Daily

No. 1: Milwaukee

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

In 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education said that school segregation is illegal and unjust, yet we still have school segregation in 2014.

 

I didn’t see purple on the maps. Maybe due to the fact that Amerindians make up less than 1% of the U.S. population and they are not so much in ‘urban’ areas, but instead segregated on reservations.

 

It will also be interesting in future analysis to see the constant public confusion between the terms American Indian (heritage from the Americas), verses Indian American (heritage from India).

 

@getgln

See on www.salon.com

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How Charter Schools and Testing Regimes Have Helped Re-Segregate Our Schools

See on Scoop.it – Community Village Daily

 

“In Brown, Chief Justice Warren wrote: “To separate [children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.” Yes, and separating children by race or class or test scores into pseudo-private charter schools is affecting not only those students but our communities and our nation in the very ways we once tried to undo.”

 
See on www.thedailybeast.com