Disproportionate Minority Representation

 

  • 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

 

Documents

Links
  • 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.


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.