The national holiday honoring Martin
Luther King is an appropriate time to review racial diversity in private
schools. So how are we doing, really?
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NAIS Statistics 1998 (the National Association of Independent Schools' annual statistical report in key areas of independent school operations) reports faculty of color "as 9 percent of the independent school teaching force, up from 4 percent in1987," this according to the brilliant article entitled Attracting and Retaining Teachers of Color by Pearl Rock Kane and Alfonso J. Orsini. Schools
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So far, so good! But you and I know that there is so much more we must do to eradicate racial prejudice. What can we as the private school community do? These links will get you started:
- Ten
Things Every American Should Do To Promote Racial Reconciliation
Television Race Initiative
Teaching Tolerance
My colleague, Kimberly Hohman, offers a very complete look at Race Relations. I commend it to you.
Dr. King, your dream lives on in
the hearts of all of us who "hold these truths to be self-evident: that
all men are created equal."
--Rob Kennedy, Private Schools Guide
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