The Atlantic: “‘Waiting too long to pay attention to student mental health can easily lead to school dropouts or other problems later in life.’”
The Atlantic: “Life may have gotten better for many in the LGBT community in the last decade, but for LGBT youth in middle and high school, there is much room for improvement.”
Chalkbeat: “‘There’s been a big growth in the number of school districts that are pursuing socioeconomic diversity. … New York has made an important and good start in this effort.’”
Education Writers Association: “Of course, ‘Have more students graduated?’ is a very different question than ‘Are more young adults prepared for success after high school?’”
Edutopia: “Cultural competence means first understanding, as educational leaders, that we come to school with our sense of who we are, and that unless we are reflective about our own identity and how it creates a lens through which we view the world, we will not be able to honor the identities of the students and faculty we serve.”
The José Vilson: “For students who experience injustice because of their race, class, gender, and/or sexuality the role of social justice teaching plays an even more urgent role because of their proximity to injustice and recurring trauma.”
The New York Times: “The problem schools face is that they can’t prevent sex discrimination unless they can say with certainty what sex is. And in an age of gender fluidity, the word is hard to define.”
The Seattle Times: “About 2,000 Seattle educators wore Black Lives Matter shirts at their schools Wednesday to call for racial equity in education.”
ThinkProgress: “The whole reason the federal government took a stance is because schools were repeatedly treating trans students like lepers who deserved to be ostracized. Allowing that to continue only maintains the status quo of stigma against transgender people.”
The Washington Post: “October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. I’m not a big fan of disability awareness campaigns, generally, unless they lead us toward accepting people for who they are, for tearing down our own internal ableist narratives about normality or function. That’s my goal here, to take an anecdote about the surprising role played by streaming music technology that has allowed my son to reveal new depths of understanding.”
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