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Those Kids, Our Schools: Race and Reform in an American High School
Shayla Reese Griffin
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"Those Kids, Our Schools" examines patterns of racial interaction in a large, integrated high school and makes a powerful case for the frank conversations that educators could and should be having about race in schools. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
In Those Kids, Our Schools, Shayla Reese Griffin examines patterns of racial interaction in a large, integrated high school and makes a powerful case for the frank conversations that educators could and should be having about race in schools.
Over three years, Griffin observed students, teachers, and administrators in a “post-racial” exurban high school in the Midwest. In its hallways, classrooms, lunchrooms, and staff meetings, she uncovered the disturbing ways in which racial tensions and prejudices persist and are reinforced. Students engaged in patterns of behavior that underscored racial hierarchies. Teachers—no matter how intellectually committedto equity and diversity—often lacked ... Read more
In Those Kids, Our Schools, Shayla Reese Griffin examines patterns of racial interaction in a large, integrated high school and makes a powerful case for the frank conversations that educators could and should be having about race in schools.
Over three years, Griffin observed students, teachers, and administrators in a “post-racial” exurban high school in the Midwest. In its hallways, classrooms, lunchrooms, and staff meetings, she uncovered the disturbing ways in which racial tensions and prejudices persist and are reinforced. Students engaged in patterns of behavior that underscored racial hierarchies. Teachers—no matter how intellectually committedto equity and diversity—often lacked ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612507675
SKU
V9781612507675
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About Shayla Reese Griffin
In Michigan, Shayla Reese Griffin is the diversity and school culture consultant for the Washtenaw Intermediate School District and director of Creating Culturally Proficient Communities, a five-year initiative to improve racial and economic justice in the Ypsilanti Community Schools.
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