August 22, 2018
By Prantik Saha and Emmaia Gelman
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…we are also acutely aware that NYC schools perpetuate racism and other injustices in many ways that don’t make the news, like white-centric curriculum and small, everyday acts of “implicit bias” that diminish students. Addressing these issues has largely been left to individual schools and overburdened administrators, a heavy lift that literally has to be reinvented in each school that takes it on. We’re seeing this in the form of parent-driven “diversity and inclusion” work – important, well-intentioned and, as we’ve learned, completely inadequate to the task…
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Emmaia Gelman 