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The Best Way To Fulfill Brown v. Board’s Promise Is To Hire More Black Teachers
The best way to fulfill Brown’s promise and confront the national teacher shortage is to hire more teachers of color, researchers found. The post The Best Way To Fulfill Brown v. Board’s Promise Is To Hire More Black Teachers appeared first on NewsOne.
70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, many schools remain segregated: Data analysis
In the Mississippi Delta, farms, wildlife refuges and churches dot the landscape alongside the Magnolia State's country highways. In some ways, the region looks on the surface in 2024 as it did in 1954. Yet a quick drive reveals that even though the area's population has long been on the decline, something in the Delta has increased over the last seven decades – the number of private schools. In Tunica, a private school opened its doors in 1964. The next year, Deer Creek School opened in the former white-only Arcola Public School that had been consolidated with Hollandale. Today, 96% of Deer Creek's students are white, even though the school-aged children living in its neighborhood are majority-non-white. Indianola Academy also opened in 1965. Today, Black students make up less than nine percent of the private school's student body, but nearly two-thirds of school-aged children in the surrounding neighborhood are Black.
Asian students face racism, harassment at school. What would make it stop?
Editor’s note: This story has graphic language and descriptions of racial slurs, harmful rhetoric and violence against Asians and other students of color attending public schools. If you need support or have experienced violence, discrimination, harassment or racism, find an organization that can help in this database. Hai Au...
Record number of students reached by HRC’s anti-bullying program this year
Headquarters of the Human Rights Campaign, Washington, D.C. (Photo by Adam Fagen on Flickr) The Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming Schools program reached a record 750,000 students in fiscal year 2024 — supporting communities that are contending with the dramatic rise, in recent years, of anti-LGBTQ harassment and reported hate crimes in schools.
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