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To dismantle racism, make teacher education more inclusive
By Brandon White and Amy Rudat
June 2021
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Key readings about segregation and the teaching profession
- Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein
- Who Decides Who Becomes a Teacher? Schools of Education as Sites of Resistance by Julie Gorlewski and Eve Tuck
- Latino Education in the United States: A Narrated History from 1513 to 2000 by Victoria Maria MacDonald
- The Lost Education of Horace Tate by Vanessa Siddle Walker
- Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes of Education Reform by Derrick Bell
References
Aguilar, R. (2021, February 22). The importance of grow your own programs to recruit teachers of color. The Education Trust. edtrust.org/the-equity-line/the-importance-of-grow-your-own-programs-to-recruit-eachers-of-color/
Anderson, M.D. (2018, August 9). The secret network of black teachers behind the fight for desegregation. The Atlantic.www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/08/black-educators-hidden-provocateurs/567065/
Barnum, M. (2017, September 12). Certification rules and tests are keeping would-be teachers of color out of America’s classrooms. Here’s how. Chalkbeat. www.chalkbeat.org/2017/9/12/21100902/certification-rules-and-tests-are-keeping-would-be-teachers-of-color-out-of-america-s-classrooms-her
Center for Black Educator Development. (2021). www.thecenterblacked.org/
Delpit, L.D. (2006). Other people’s children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. New Press.
Dixon, D. & Griffin, A. (2021, February 22). If you listen, we will stay. The Education Trust. edtrust.org/resource/if-you-listen-we-will-stay/
Goldstein, D. (2015). The teacher wars: A history of America’s most embattled profession. Anchor Books.
Gorski, P.C. & Dalton, K. (2020). Striving for critical reflection in multicultural and social justice teacher education: Introducing a typology of reflection approaches. Journal of Teacher Education, 71(3), 357-368.
Ladson-Billings, G. (2004). Landing on the wrong note: The price we paid for brown. Educational Researcher, 33(7), 3-13.
Ladson-Billings, G. (2006). Yes, but how do we do it? Practicing culturally relevant pedagogy. In J. Landsman & C.W. Lewis, White teachers/diverse classrooms (pp. 25-41). Stylus Publishing.
Love, B. (2020). We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon.
Meckler, L. & Rabinowitz, K. (2019, December 27). America’s schools are more diverse than ever, yet teachers are still mostly white. The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/local/education/teacher-diversity/
TNTP. (2020). A broken pipeline. tntp.org/publications/view/teacher-training-and-classroom-practice/a-broken-pipeline
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