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We need more black and brown teachers but not for the reasons you think

The Hechinger Report

Washington teaches a class in 1916. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Better teaching should be aimed at the source of schooling problems – future policy makers. White students absorb these same cultural cues.

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We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

The Hechinger Report

We will see the short-term impacts,” said Cynthia Osborne, director of the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at the University of Texas at Austin. “We It’s 100 percent, I think, against what our culture tends to think for kids,” Turner said. “It But we will also see this for decades to come.