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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

What is less clear, however, is how policymakers should address teachers’ biases and the consequences of these biases in schools. A more diverse workforce in districts at all levels can challenge the structural forces that contribute to the unconscious prejudices of those already working in schools.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

The Hechinger Report

Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, was concerned about how that could happen safely. “I I go to a school with over 2,000 kids that walk through the door every single day,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. Credit: Chloe Pressley.

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Teach Truth, Teach Banned Books

Zinn Education Project

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” Source: Greenville County Library In 1960, high school students led a read-in at a public library in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Book Bans Threaten Public Education

Zinn Education Project

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” Source: Greenville County Library In 1960, high school students led a read-in at a public library in Greenville, South Carolina.