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Lessons from segregated schools can help make today's classrooms more inclusive

  • Written by Sara Schley, Professor of Learning Sciences and Inclusive Pedagogy at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageBlack teachers comprise just 7% of U.S. public school teachers even though 16% of their students are Black. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

The intent of school desegregation is clear: Black and white children should attend the same schools, and Black children should not be relegated to inferior buildings, learning materials and...

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