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All posts tagged "implicit bias"
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2.4K► ReportsMany Say Now is the Time to Fight Racial Bias in Foster Care
LIDERINA/SHUTTERSTOCK Cheri Williams looks back with regret at the start of her career as a child welfare caseworker in 1998. Systemic racism...
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3.3KNewsNorth Carolina’s Raise the Age Law Highlights How Schools Handle Discipline
“We don’t know how many students are casualties of a racist system, in which they are punished for being in their bodies,...
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8.9KGuest Opinion EssayCaseworkers, Stand Up Against Racism in Child Welfare Or Be Part of Problem
What really changed my life was coming to understand the deep problem of structural and institutional racism that exists within child protective...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayOwning His Learning and His Future: Taliq Tillman’s Student-Owned Learning Experience
I met Arthur 10 years ago at a principals’ convening. That night, Arthur and I talked about how to make students’ learning...
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Being a ‘Good Person’ Won’t Undo Your Implicit Biases
To become a champion of racial equity and social justice takes more effort than one might think. As a culture, we laud...
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School-to-Prison Pipeline Can Be Dismantled Using Alternative Discipline Strategies
The school-to-prison pipeline refers to the streamlining of at-risk students from schools to incarceration or related correctional-type facilities that results from punitive...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayThe Energy to Protect Girls of Color, Take Down Their Barriers Is Here
I had the privilege to bear witness to the vast beauty, power and resiliency of girls and women of color speaking their...
