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	<title>Racism and Discrimination within Public Schools</title>
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		<title>Primary Colors: Racism and Discrimination vs. Education</title>
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I created this video to show how racism has entered the world of education. In the video, there are images of racism and a few places where you could find it.  Though racism is intertwined with many things in our society, it can be overlooked and mistaken for something that it is not.  It can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=23&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/primary-colors-racism-and-discrimination-vs-education/</link>
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		<title>Get in the Ring (Round 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are again&#8230;in the ring.  In round 2 we involve the students themselves.  I was able to find an example of how to involve our students in making a difference.  There are organizations for children that teache them about racism and how to identify it, cope with it, and keep their environment safe and happy for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=18&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/get-in-the-ring-round-2/</link>
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		<title>No Child Left Behind: Helpful or Not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So far during my research, I have come across many articles that mention the No Child Left Behind Act and how it is or isn&#8217;t helping our poor and minority public school children.  The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 is an Act of Congress that reauthorized a number of federal programs aiming to improve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=22&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/no-child-left-behind-helpful-or-not/</link>
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		<title>Lingering Issues: As told by Andrew Kelly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have had many different cases. debates, and laws passed to try to eliminate racism, discrimination, and segragation in our public schools.  The question now, is are these laws and regualtions really helping?  Are they affecting our students and their education in the way that they were meant to if at all?
I came across an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=21&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/lingering-issues-as-told-by-andrew-kelly/</link>
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		<title>50 Years Down the Road&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifty years after Brown vs Board of Education, are things improving for America&#8217;s poor and minority students?  History repeats itself as schools become more and more segragated as we speak.  I found an article on racism in public schools as it is today.  Though the issue of segregation may seem invisble, it is occuring.  According to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=20&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/50-years-down-the-road/</link>
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		<title>What Would Bill Do??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found an article written by Bill O&#8217;Reilly about how former President Bill Clinton wanted to deal with the issues of racism within public schools.  According to the National Assesment of Educational Progress, &#8220;60 percent of poor children who attended the fourth grade last year can barely read. They achieved a &#8220;below basic&#8221; score on standardized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=19&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/what-would-bill-do/</link>
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		<title>Racial Bias</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found an article from 2000 in the New York Times about a study that had been conducted on racial bias within a small variety of large school districts across the United States.  The different districts include, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Durham, South Carolina, Los Angeles, Miami, Columbia, San Francisco, Missoula, and Providence. 
According to the study, &#8220;black students in pulic schools&#8230;are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=17&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/study-finds-racial-bias-in-public-schools-by-tamar-lewin/</link>
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		<title>Jiggaboo vs Wannabe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discrimination and racism in public schools is not only projected towards students and faculty of color from non colored students and faculty, it is also projected from person of color to person of color resulting in what is called colorism. Colorism is a form of discrimination in which human beings are accorded different social treatment based on skin color (wikipedia.com). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=11&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/jiggaboo-vs-wannabe/</link>
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		<title>How to &#8220;Get in the Ring&#8221; (Round 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I shared a view of racism and discrimination from a public highschool in North Carolina. Two young women that attended the highschool were forced to leave due to the harsh environment and the lack of intervention by the school and school disticts administration.  But what should have been done for them?  How do the parents of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=12&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/how-to-get-in-the-ring-round-1/</link>
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		<title>Northwest Guilford Highschool</title>
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Though there a many people who would like for racism to end, there are many who would say other wise.  Racism has been an issue all over the world for many years and, as stated before, it is affecting America&#8217;s children.  Racism is seeping into our schools and affecting the way that America&#8217;s students are learning.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eash22.wordpress.com&blog=2564715&post=10&subd=eash22&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://eash22.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/northwest-guilford-highschool/</link>
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