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Pandemic Jobs: Essential & Prestigious?
Of the following jobs, which has the highest prestige in the U.S.? Lawyer Farmer Janitor Nurse Child care worker Of the following jobs, which is (are) considered essential during the pandemic in the U.S.? Lawyer Farmer Janitor Nurse Child care … Continue reading
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Tagged child care worker, college professor, COVID, COVID-19, economic changes, education, essential jobs, farmer, firefighters, gender essential jobs, grocery employees, health-care workers, instacart, janitor, jobsecurity, lawyer, nurse, occupational prestige, pandemic, police, public perception, social changes, social surveys, sociology, training, women
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Celebrating Halloween at Asylums: What Messages Do We Send?
“Come to the Asylum Ball,” and join us for a “costume contest and party.” Pictured along with this ad are people in straitjackets, pictures of signs including Psych Ward, Morgue, Amputation, and Genetics, bottles of various medications, and a warning … Continue reading
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Tagged asylum, autism, Colgate University, devil, disability, diversity, diversity consciousness, education, genetics, geriatric, Halloween, haunted, idiot, imbecile, insane, mental illness, morgue, moron, New York State Lunatic Asylum, Pennhurst Asylum, perspective, possessed, psych ward, putting yourself in someone else's shoes, social interaction, Utica
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Quality Teaching in “The Hood”
For more than four decades, I taught predominantly African-American students in downtown Baltimore. I also happen to be a white guy. My students, who attended Baltimore City Community College (BCCC), were amongst the poorest in the state of Maryland. Given … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement gap, African-American students, Baltimore City Community College, Columbia University, cultural intelligence, cultural reality, demographic mismatch, education, Emdin, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, inclusive teaching, minority students, Oxford Round Table, pedagogy, public school teachers, Teachers College, the hood
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One in One Hundred
In the fall of 1969, I was a junior at Colgate University. At that time, Colgate was an all-male liberal arts college of some 2,000 students or so. Given its rural, isolated location, meeting women was a challenge. So my … Continue reading
Do We Talk About Race Too Much?
My mentor, Ira Zepp, once said, “You need to examine race, and then move on, but you can’t move on too quickly.” Presidential candidate Ben Carson, among many others in the public eye, would ask that we de-emphasize race and … Continue reading
Diverse Classrooms and the “Diversity Gap”
This fall, for the first time in our nation’s history, most public-school students are not White. Rather, data from the National Center for Education Statistics indicate Latinos, Blacks, American Indians, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and biracial students will account for … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, Asian and Pacific Islanders, biracial students, Blacks, diversity, diversity gap, education, elementary school, Ferguson, Latinos, Michael Brown, National Center for Education Statistics, secondary school, social studies, teaching, teaching current events, Trayvon Martin
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Santa Claus and the Race Question at Indiana University
Recently, IU’s CommUNITY Education Program thought that it might be a good idea to pose the question, “Can Santa Claus Be a Black Man?” So they created a big poster with this very question and placed it just inside a … Continue reading