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Freitag, 6. Dezember 2019

NYC schools from pre-K to eighth grade are still teaching mostly white authors / Corinne Segal. In: Literary Hub Dec 5, 2019

Today in unacceptable news: a report from the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice shows that New York City public school students from 3-K and pre-K to eighth grade are reading a disproportionately large percentage of white authors.
Researchers looked at 1,205 books from 15 widely-used curricula and found that more than 80 percent of them were written by white authors; additionally, more than half of the books featured a white main character. White authors represented an even wider share of the reading for 3-K and pre-K students. About 15 percent of New York City’s public school students are white.
This lack of representation in reading is demonstrably bad for educational outcomes, the study noted: “Research demonstrates that for students of color and white students, culturally responsive education decreases dropout rates and suspensions, and increases grade point averages, student participation, self-image, critical thinking skills and graduation rates.”
The coalition held a rally in New York City on Wednesday to call for greater equality in New York City curricula.

via https://lithub.com/nyc-schools-from-pre-k-to-eighth-grade-are-still-teaching-mostly-white-authors/

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