Perspectives for a Diverse America. At the heart of the Perspectives curriculum is the Central Text Anthology, a carefully curated collection of rigorous texts that exemplify anti-bias themes and meet the requirements of the Common Core State Standards.
The texts encourage students to question common understandings, consider multiple viewpoints, analyze and critique power relationships, and act to change unfair and unequal conditions. In addition to written informational and literary texts, the Anthology includes multi-media texts (e.g., film clips, pod casts, interviews) and visual texts (e.g., cartoons, charts, photographs).Each text within the Anthology has been quantitatively analyzed for CCSS grade level and mapped to Perspectives themes and anti-bias standards. Use the filter to the right to identify texts appropriate for your teaching goals. Zreport.pdf. A Positive Stereotype Both Helps and Harms Asian-American Students - Students. May 20, 2015 Jennifer Lee, a sociology professor at the U. of California at Irvine: “The groups who have filed the complaints against Harvard tend to be those who are from the most highly educated segment of Asian-Americans.”
But groups like Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong are also Asian-Americans, she says, and they have higher high-school-dropout rates than African-Americans and Latinos. Enlarge Image By Peter Schmidt Asian-American organizations last week voiced their frustration in gaining access to elite colleges by filing federal complaints alleging discrimination by the admissions offices of Harvard University and other Ivy League institutions.
Women.pdf. Association of American Colleges & Universities. Across North Carolina, Muslim Students Take Stock of a Trying Semester - Students. By Madeline Will Chapel Hill, N.C.
On the campus of the University of North Carolina here — and at nearby North Carolina State University — memories of the February killings of three young Muslims still linger. The iconic symbol of the tragedy — black-and-white outlines of the victims’ heads and hijabs, with the tagline "Our Three Winners" — is still displayed on students’ Facebook profile pictures.
There’s been a steady stream of charity events, including food drives and basketball tournaments. A scholarship fund has been set up to honor the victims. But as time passes, students — particularly Muslims who knew the victims — are left grappling with difficult questions: How could this have happened here? The three were shot and killed a month ago in a quiet off-campus apartment complex in Chapel Hill: Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19. Mr. The motive surrounding the killings remains uncertain. ‘Emotional Roller-Coaster’ They Haven’t Done the Reading. Again. Browse the Pedagogy Unbound archives or join our new teaching group.
If you believe the research, on any given day, something like 70 percent of our students come to class having not done the assigned reading. That phenomenon is immensely annoying to most faculty members. Who among us has not faced a classroom full of blank stares, with seemingly no one prepared to answer the well-thought-out question we've asked about the reading? How can we solve that problem? How can we ensure that students are meeting what should be a very basic responsibility? Well, we can give quizzes.
So what else can you do if you don't want to introduce regular reading quizzes? The first thing to do: Make sure that your required reading is actually required. So go through your syllabus, and make sure that all of your reading assignments are there for a reason, and that it’s actually necessary to complete the readings to meet the course objectives. Next you have to demonstrate this necessity to students. Media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/cbs2011_total_group_report.pdf. Civicmission.s3.amazonaws.com/118/f0/5/171/1/Guardian-of-Democracy-report.pdf. Www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/speak_up_pocket_guide_WEB_0.pdf. Www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/speak_up_handbook.pdf.