Boston Arts Academy is the city’s first public high school for the visual and performing arts. The Arts Academy is committed to a rigorous academic and arts education for students who are eager to think creatively and independently, to question, and to take risks within a college preparatory program. As a pilot school within the Boston Public Schools, the Arts
Elizabeth Cohen believes that children should learn together—integrated in all ways, but especially across ability levels and styles. Cohen, professor of education and sociology at the School of Education at Stanford University, continues to study and teach about working for equity in heterogeneous classrooms and offers one of the most useful and well-researched books on the topic. First published in
Horace editor Jill Davidson met with four Bay Area educators—Michelle Lau, math teacher at Fremont’s Irvington High School, David Montes de Oca, educational strategist at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, Monica Vaughan, teacher-leader at Oakland’s Street Academy, and Michele Dawson, technology coordinator at Daly City’s Jefferson Elementary School District—for a roundtable discussion on leading for equity. All four are current or
Tolerance.org A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tolerance.org features extensive civil rights-related resources for teachers, parents, teens, and younger children. The teachers’ area reflects the work of the Teaching Tolerance project, known outside the web for Teaching Tolerance magazine, and includes information about grant programs for student projects focused on equity, a wide range of anti-bias curricula, an
Stewart Jones, Rachel Russell, T.J. Estandian, Yaffa Katz-Lewis, and Peter Lauterborn, five seniors from San Francisco’s Leadership High School, discussed their views on educational equity with Horace editor Jill Davidson. A 400-student public charter school founded in 1997, Leadership High School attracts students from across the city. To learn more about the school, visit www.leadershiphigh.org. Horace: First of all, tell
As an African American parent, grandparent, woman, and educator I strongly believe in the need for multicultural education. I am delighted to have discovered Through Students’ Eyes, which addresses how power, white privilege, institutionalized racism, individual racism, the minority achievement gap, and equity impact student learning. Donaldson’s research examines how an antiracist curriculum can empower students. As an educator and