Optional Materials to support our Racial Justice Journey exploring Education.
Racial Justice Steering Committee Recommendations
Teaching Hard History – Southern Poverty Law Center
Schools are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a basic knowledge of the important role it played in shaping the United States and the impact it continues to have on race relations in America.
The Graduates / Los Graduados | Education and Latinos in the U.S. – | Independent Lens | PBS – two 55 minute segment
Explores pressing issues in education today through the eyes of six Latinx students from across the US. More than a survey of contemporary policy debates, the bilingual, two-part film offers first-hand perspectives on key challenges facing Latinx high school students and their families, educators, and community leaders. It is the story of the graduates who will make up America’s future.
Additional Resources for consideration
Broad Overviews
Institutional Racism – Biases & Solutions – White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans (WHIEEAA)
A Letter to White Teachers of My Black Children – Teaching While White (NH Conference recommendation)
Racial Justice in Education: Resource Guide – National Education Association | Human and Civil Rights
Racial Justice in Education: Affiliates in Action– National Education Association | Human and Civil Rights
Young Children (Attention Grandparents and Parents)
Joyful ABC Activity Books – National Museum of African American History & Culture
The Joyful ABC activity booklet series invites caregivers and educators to support children’s positive identity development while growing their language and literacy skills with activities, museum objects, and new words based on the book, A is for All the Things You Are: A Joyful ABC Book.
Public Schools
A Class Divided – Seminal Piece in Public School Diversity Awareness – PBS Frontline 53:00 minutes
Schott Foundation for Public Education
LISTEN – On Vimeo – 1 hr 46:45 minutes – Student film on testing, and so much more.
Higher Education
Tell Them We Are Rising – – | Independent Lens | PBS – 1 hour 22 minutes
Though much of its history was eclipsed by the explosiveness of the 1960s, the essential role the nation’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) played in shaping black life, creating a black middle class and dismantling segregation cannot be overstated.
Racial disparities in higher education funding could widen during economic downturn
Federal Indian Boarding School System
Unspoken: America’s Native American Boarding Schools – PBS – 56:43 minutes
Moving and insightful look into the history, operation, and legacy of the federal Indian Boarding School system, whose goal was total assimilation of Native Americans at the cost of stripping away Native culture, tradition, and language.
Current Issues in NH
Our Schools, Our Kids: Achieving Greater Equity for NH Students and Taxpayers from the Commission to Study School Funding Relative to RSA 193-E:2-e
My Turn: Legislation endangers practice of medicine – Concord Monitor Opinion on House Bill 544 (Diversity Training)