inclusion

AACTE Opposes Efforts to Silence Educators and LGBTQ+ Students

(May 10, 2022, Washington, D.C.) On behalf of AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education), President and CEO Lynn M. Gangone issued the following statement in response to recent legislation meant to oppress educators and students, including legislation specifically targeting transgendered and gender non-conforming students: “Recently, there has been a concerted effort to prevent […]

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Beware the Solution That Is Not About the Problem: Reflections on Education and the COVID-19 Shock

In the last few weeks U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has put forward three initiatives intended to privatize the provision of public education. Given her long known and widely declared conviction that vouchers and related schemes to deliver public dollars into private hands are the panacea for all that ails education, this is not […]

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Special Education Equity in the Era of COVID-19

With the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19), school districts, institutions of higher education, and educators are finding themselves in uncharted territory. As schools across the nation are forced to shut their doors, finding ways to best serve all students equitably has never been more urgent. This is especially true for our most vulnerable students—those with […]

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Disrupting Inequities: Educating for Change

The American education system was not created to support the liberation of the powerless. Instead, it was designed to instill skills, habits, beliefs, and discipline that would allow for better control of the masses. The colonizers who became the architects of this country built a system that perpetuates the status of white-skinned privilege and wealth, […]

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Leading Educators to Focus on Equity and Inclusivity at the AACTE 2020 Annual Meeting in Atlanta

MEDIA ALERT                                            Contact: Jerrica Thurman Tel: (202) 478-4502 E-mail: jthurman@aacte.org Leading Educators to Focus on Equity and Inclusivity at the AACTE 2020 Annual Meeting in Atlanta U.S. public schools serve students with diverse perspectives and needs, and educators […]

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Freedom of Speech and Civil Discourse

Freedom of speech is an ideal to which those who founded this country believed in. I recall President Barack Obama’s many talks about the “American Ideals” of freedom, justice, and liberty, which I believe, includes free speech. Inherent in President Obama’s message was the notion that these ideals were not fully realized by historically marginalized […]

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