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A New Student Made Me Rethink My Classroom Culture — and the Ways It Marginalizes Students

ED Surge

There were few role models who looked like me outside of my family, and the only cultural representations I saw were insulting stereotypes that mocked Indian culture. She told me that although he enjoyed the new school, it was a culture shock from his previous school. Now, I’m not so sure.

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OPINION: Do our divided schools look like a scene out of ‘Mean Girls’ — or a slide into white nationalism?

The Hechinger Report

With this in mind, I spent my summer speaking in group settings to hundreds of K-12 students about equity as part of my work as a professor who studies school communities and who works with districts to improve school cultures and climates. Finally, it is essential to consider community as well as identity. This is needed.

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