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Teacher: A student told me I ‘couldn’t understand because I was a white lady.’ Here’s what I did then.

by lindaoppenheim | Nov 28, 2015 | Article, Awards, Speech

Award-winning teacher Emily E. Smith describes the lesson one of her students taught her that changed how she teaches.  “[M]y children knew about white privilege before I did. The closest I could ever come was empathy. My curriculum from then on...

Should they be “carefully taught?”

by lindaoppenheim | Oct 16, 2015 | Article

What happens when minority kids are taught not to talk about race — for the study, click here. 

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