discrimination in education

Teacher Julie Landsman shares her impressions on racism in the United States and the role race plays in the education system, focusing on the challenges caused by a predominately white teaching force educating the growing number of minority students.

"... exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures. For four years Monique W. Morris, author of Black Stats, chronicled the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged-by teachers, administrators, and the justice system-and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how, despite obstacles, stigmas, stereotypes, and despair, black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond. "--Provided by.

"Howard shares his personal journey of transformation, presents a conceptual framework that illuminates White dominance, and explicates the journey of White identity development. Howard's text also scaffolds students when he asks them to explore and examine the subtle and institutional manifestations of race and racism in their personal lives and in the larger society"--Page xi.

In 1847, a young African American girl named Sarah Roberts was attending a school in Boston. Then one day she was told she could never come back. She didn't belong. The Otis School was for white children only. Sarah deserved an equal education, and the Roberts family fought for change. They made history. Roberts v. City of Boston was the first case challenging our legal system to outlaw segregated schools. It was the first time an African American lawyer argued in a supreme court.

An illustrated biography of Malala Yousafzai, a Muslim teenage girl from Pakistan, who advocates for education of women and children, and whom the Taliban attempted to assassinate on October 9, 2012.

"[Examines] how the racial achievement gap continues to afflict American schools more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation."--Provided by publisher.

Profiles famed civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall, whose successful arguing of the Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court led to a landmark ruling overturning school segregation, and later became the nation's first black Supreme Court justice.

Discusses the laws surrounding schools, including bullying, discrimination, privacy, and fair discipline.

Examines the impact Jane Elliott's lessons in discrimination has had on her students, discussing how her students were influenced by the exercise, in which the class was segregated into inferior and superior groups based on their eye color, has influenced their lives, even ten years after they had Elliott's class.