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Disproportionate Minority Representation |
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- A Class Divided
On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, an Iowa school teacher gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives.
Winner of The 1985 National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational, Cultural, or Historical Programming and the Sidney Hillman Prize Award (1985).
- Education Is All In Your Mind - New York Times OpEd Article
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- African American Children in Foster Care
HHS and Congressional Actions Could Help Reduce Proportion in Care
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives
Statement of Kay Brown, Director
Education, Workforce, and Income Security
- Synthesis of Research on Disproportionality in Child Welfare: An Update
Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in the Child Welfare System
Robert B. Hill, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Westat
October 2006
- Places to Watch: Promising Practices to Address Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare Services
Paper prepared for: The Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity
whose members are the Annie E. Casey Foundation, including Casey Family Services, Casey Family Programs, and the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative; The Marguerite Casey Foundation; and the Center for the Study of Social Policy.
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- Annie E. Casey Foundation - Race Matters Toolkit
Indicators of child and family well-being show troubling disparities or disproportionality by race. This toolkit is designed to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials achieve results that provide opportunity for all children, families, and communities, regardless of race.
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an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives.
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