{"id":5084327,"date":"2019-11-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/education-lets-talk-about-racism\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T05:00:00","slug":"education-lets-talk-about-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2019\/11\/12\/education-lets-talk-about-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Education: Let's Talk About Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cYoung children notice racism [and] internalize it, but can\u2019t explain why it happens,\u201d Natalie Stapert, author of \u201cTalking about Racism in Elementary School,\u201d told the Hartford Courant<\/a>. \u201cThey need to understand the historical context of our nation and our society, so they can correctly explain and disrupt its affects.” <\/p>\n\n\n

Stapert and co-author Sarah Buscher shared insights on how teaching young children about the history of racism can help shrink Connecticut\u2019s achievement gap at a conference on \u201cRethinking Race and Slavery\u201d at the Avon Old Farms School earlier this month, reported<\/a> the Hartford Courant.<\/p>\n\n\n

All public schools in Connecticut are required to teach African American and Latino studies by 2022 under a new law passed by the state legislature this year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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SUGGESTION: Flawed Proposals for Teaching Latino and African American Social Studies In Public Schools Are Better Than Nothing <\/h4>\n\n\n
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The Changing Face of America? <\/h4>\n\n\n

By the year 2050, 40 percent of the United States will be multiracial, according to the most recent census data, and interracial marriage is at its highest level ever. Social scientists are studying the way kids perceive racially ambiguous faces and how that information could eventually be used to help improve our relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n

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