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Direct linkGibson, Cynthia – Teaching Tolerance, 2009
This article is a part of the "Why I Teach" series. The author has been immersed in the culture of Selma, Alabama for the past 15 months. The world knows Selma as a focal point of the Civil Rights Movement. Presidents and presidents-to-be have come here to commemorate the city's role in the struggle for equal voting rights. Despite the city's…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Poverty, Social Bias, Racial Bias
Holladay, Jennifer – Teaching Tolerance, 2009
Few of today's teachers can remember an economic situation quite like the one everyone now faces. To find analogies for the collapse of the housing bubble and the subsequent credit crisis, one has to search not his or her memories but the textbooks. "The Great Gatsby" and "The Grapes of Wrath" suddenly make more sense now. Generations of students…
Descriptors: Coping, Economic Climate, Economic Impact, Employment Level
Teaching Tolerance, 2008
This article features Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), a systems-based method that offers a schoolwide approach to improving student behavior. PBIS was developed at the University of Oregon and has been shown to work at all grade levels and be effective in districts with greater concentrations of poverty and higher…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Discipline, At Risk Students, Positive Reinforcement
Sapp, Jeff – Teaching Tolerance, 2006
According to the Children's Defense Fund, 17.6% of American children live in poverty--about one of every six children. The numbers are rising, and, alarmingly, the number of children living in extreme poverty--families with incomes at or below 50% of the poverty line--is rising even more dramatically. They live in cities, towns and rural areas.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Low Income Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Consciousness Raising
Walker, Tim – Teaching Tolerance, 2001
Describes Wake County, North Carolina's, new socioeconomic integration plan, which is intended to improve academic performance. Examines previous and unsuccessful school desegregation plans and their impact on poor students of color. Discusses how educators and lawmakers must develop innovative, multidimensional policies to promote integration…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Diversity (Student)
Kilman, Carrie – Teaching Tolerance, 2006
Todd County, South Dakota, is synonymous with the Lakota Rosebud Reservation. It stretches across the state's south-central edge, bordered on one side by the better known Pine Ridge Reservation, where the American Indian Movement got its start, and on another side by Nebraska. Until the 1970s, generations of Indian children were forced from their…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Multicultural Education, Counties, American Indians
Bullard, Sara – Teaching Tolerance, 1993
The B. F. Day Elementary School in Seattle (Washington) exemplifies positive changes that can be made with principal leadership and teacher involvement. The school is one of six Seattle urban schools receiving federal and state support for educating homeless children under the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Children, Disadvantaged Youth
