1960: Ruby Bridges bravely walked to desegregate her school.
2024: We’re still battling school #segregation .
“The Problem We All Live With” persists. Authors Andrew Lefkowits & Dr. Val Brown (She/Her) IntegratedSchools offer some parent-focused solutions. #BrownAt70
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This #TeacherAppreciationWeek , our colleagues at NCSD and PRRAC continue to lend their voices to show support and gratitude for our nation’s educators. Hear from 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC’s Tessa Delgo.
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This #TeacherAppreciationWeek , our colleagues at NCSD and PRRAC continue to lend their voices to show support and gratitude for our nation’s hardworking educators.
Hear from 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC’s Nina Todd.
#ThankATeacher #TeacherAppreciationWeek 2024 #TAW24 NEA AFT U.S. Department of Education

Attn: DC/DMV folks: See you tonight?
#BrownAt70 #ThurgoodWasRight
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Authors FundSchoolzNotBombs #FreePalestine🍉🇵🇸 & Aneth NYU Metro Center focus on NYC’s youth school #integration movement—a narrative of empowerment, resilience & the ongoing fight for #edequity . Discover the challenges, triumphs & call to embrace transformative change. #BrownAt70
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School #integration efforts must evolve as our communities diversify. Alejandra Vázquez Baur The Century Foundation explores how schools & neighborhoods can adapt to meet the needs of our increasingly multiracial society. #BrownAt70
Read more in 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC’s #PovertyandRace : bit.ly/BrownAt70

Join the Howard University School of Education and School of Law commemorative event, 70 Years Hence: Examining the Legal Precedent of Brown v. Board of Education with a panel discussion & reception on 5/16 at 7 PM at Howard University School of Law.

The event is open to all!

This #TeacherAppreciationWeek , our colleagues at NCSD and 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC wanted to lend their voices to show support and gratitude for our nation’s educators.
Here’s what PRRAC’s Phil Tegeler has to say.
#ThankATeacher #TeacherAppreciationWeek 2024 #TAW24 NEA AFT U.S. Department of Education

Today is #TeacherAppreciationDay ! Take a moment to #ThankATeacher and show support and gratitude for our nation’s hardworking educators. Here’s what NCSD’s own Jenna Tomasello has to say.
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The Brown v. Board campaign was conceived in the 1930s by the educator & dean of Howard University School of Law, Charles Hamilton Houston.

Involved in most of the civil rights cases argued before SCOTUS from 1930–1954, he was nicknamed 'The Man Who Killed Jim Crow.' #TeacherAppreciationWeek

From the Rosenwald Fund to elevating the use of research in legal arguments to serving as living quarters for those documenting the state of Black education in the South, Southern Education Foundation has a profound legacy w/ #BrownvBoard .
Read more by Raymond Pierce here: bit.ly/BrownAt70

In celebration of the 70th anniversary of Brown v Board, join us for an evening of conversation with former law clerks of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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Elizabeth Gillespie McRae (Western Carolina University) explores how education was used by segregationists to shape Jim Crow citizenship, revealing the influence of white supremacy on schools across generations. 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC #TeachTruth #HonestHistory
Read more via #PovertyandRace : bit.ly/BrownAt70

Using Vanessa Siddle Walker’s (Emory University) “3 As of Integration”—advocacy, aspiration & access, Zoë Burkholder Montclair State University examines what happened to Black teachers outside the southern context post- #BrownvBoard .
Read it in 🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC’s #PovertyandRace : bit.ly/BrownAt70

Had such a lovely night reflecting, learning, and building community at The Century Foundation ‘s Bridges Collaborative event, Brown v Board of Ed at 70. Beyond excited to start interning for this wonderful organization in the fall!

Learn how Memphis-Shelby Co. Schools teachers partnered with University of Memphis researchers and local Memphis 13 Foundation to launch an oral history project and curriculum to teach students about desegregation and the Memphis 13. #TeachTruth #HonestHistory
Read more via Education Week
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What a night! Thank you to all who came and joined the #Brownat70 conversation!

Bernadine Futrell from U.S. Department of Education talks about the The White House’s work to foster diverse schools and honoring the promise of Brown v Board and achieving the highest possible quality education for every student in America. #Brownat70

Dr. Bernadine Futrell (Deputy Assistant Secretary Department of Housing and Urban Development) is closing out our program of speakers for the night 🎤 #Brownat70