Racial Justice in Education – Frequently Asked Questions

Q5: Could you give me an example of how to apply all of these points?

See if you can catch all of the advice in the previous questions in this example, and decide if you think it represents effective communication.

“Parents should have the main responsibility for raising young children and whatever training they need to do their job well. But we see some troubling statistics from our state child welfare agency. Not all parents are given the same opportunity to learn. White families are twice as likely as other families referred for the same reason to be given home support services to improve their parenting skills. In contrast, the African American and Latino families referred for the same reason are more likely to have their children removed from the home and put in foster care. We know how to remove the barriers to these troubling differences in how families are treated. When caseworkers are allowed to devote more available resources to prevention and have objective criteria for determining how to allocate those resources – criteria that understand family and community assets – these disparities decline dramatically. This approach also saves taxpayers over a million dollars a year by giving priority to helping families do a better job of raising their own children rather than expecting strangers – no matter how well-meaning — to do that job for them.”

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In This Section:

• Intro: Racial Justice in Education - Frequently Asked Questions
• Q1: How can I get people to talk about race when they always want to change the subject?
• Q2: Race is always so sensitive to talk about. How can I keep a conversation focused and productive?
• Q3: When people do talk about race, and they use the dominant model of thinking, how can I get them to focus on policies, programs, and practices as sources of racial disparities?
• Q4: Data make a strong case about embedded racial inequities, but some people still don’t get it. Why?
• Q5: Could you give me an example of how to apply all of these points?
• Q6: No matter what I do, people don’t understand. Help!

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