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Educators Must Reach Out to Minority Students to Close Education Gaps
Danika Kimball More students are graduating high school than ever before, with recent studies suggesting that 82 percent of high school seniors during the 2013-2014 school year earned their diploma....
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My Friend is a Superhero – The Story of a Free Children’s Comic Book About...
Chey Heap Sometimes we need to be the change that we want to see in the world. Philip Patson – Creative and social entrepreneur, writer, comedian, human rights promoter, and award-winning diversity...
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Tackling Microaggressions in a Post-Trump Era
Mang Chang As a member of several online Facebook groups, one trend I noted was the concern from Women of Color (WoC) on the increasing level of micro-aggressions when they posted or commented on the...
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By the Numbers: American Youth Increasingly Exposed to Extremist Messages...
SWHELPER Right-wing extremist groups are increasingly using the internet to spread their messages, and more and more it’s young adults they’re reaching in the process, according to a Virginia Tech...
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A Teacher’s Response to Charlottesville for Social Workers in Practice with...
Elspeth Slayter I am currently teaching a course on social work practice with people with disabilities. The course uses an intersectional lens, acknowledging the fact that people have many...
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What are the Implications Behind Racial Colorblindness?
SWHELPER People who claim they “don’t see race” when they evaluate others may think they all have similar beliefs about racial justice – but they’re very wrong, according to a new book. In fact, the...
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How Discrimination Hurts Health and Personal Wellbeing
Eric Anthony Grollman Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the United States has used the force of nationwide laws to prohibit discriminatory treatment in the job and housing markets, in government and...
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Increasing Workplace Diversity: The Glass Escalator Phenomenon in Female...
Adia Harvey Wingfield Many assume that most workplaces are meritocracies where effort is rewarded by advancement and success. But as companies in the United States strive to accommodate greater racial...
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Offhand Comments Can Expose Underlying Racism, UW Study Finds
SWHELPER Blatant racism is easy to identify — a shouted racial slur, a white supremacist rally, or the open discrimination, segregation and violence of the pre-civil rights era. But more subtle forms...
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Teachers Report Weaker Relationships with Students of Color, Children of...
SWHELPER The relationship between teachers and students is a critical factor for academic success. However, a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development finds that...
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Study Identifies Risk And Protective Factors For Depressive Symptoms In...
SWHELPER African-American men report an average of eight depressive symptoms in a month, with family support, mastery, self-esteem, chronic stressors and discrimination among the factors that are...
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Teaching Inclusion in the Classroom
Wendy Taylor General education teachers are tasked with keeping many balls in the air, which is half the fun of working in a classroom—there are so many constantly moving and evolving pieces for which...
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Cultural Competency in the Classroom
Wendy Taylor A beneficial, yet challenging, factor of education today involves the increasing diversity in our schools. Because of the ever-growing demographics, teaching cultural competency has become...
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Girls Who Run the World at London ComicCon 2018
Chey Heap Geek culture has a rocky history with women. But now, women are rocking geek culture. Historically, women have faced invisibility (not the superpowered kind), exclusion, active hostility,...
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Let’s Have Some New Gender Stories–Please
Philip Patston When I was a kid, there were girls and boys, men and women. My sister was a bit of a tomboy which was hardly surprising perhaps given she had two older brothers. Truth be known, I was a...
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Four Ways Neurodiversity Holds the Key to the Future of Special Education
Sherie Raymond For ages, special education has been developing on its own, together with the development of ordinary education. It emphasizes disorders and the ways special education students are...
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Examining White Privilege: What’s the Fear?
Lisa Eible Dickinson student Leda Fisher asks the question “Should White Boys Still be Allowed to Talk?” in her opinion piece in the college’s daily news publication, The Dickinsonian. Reportedly, Ms....
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Why America’s Women Of Color Have Lost Ground Since The Great Recession
Marion Johnson Picture a small office with three employees: Jake, a white man; Anita, a Latina woman whose husband lost his job a year ago; and Crystal, a black single mother. Even though all three...
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How to Create Inclusive Environments for Black Students on Predominantly...
Bedelia Nicola Richards Predominantly white institutions of higher education in the United States routinely point to rising enrollments of students of color as evidence of their commitment to racial...
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The Impact of Institutional Racism on Capitol Hill
Ivana Boyd The 116th Congress, the current meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, is the most racially and ethnically diverse in history. Black, Latinx, Asian/...
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