The article below reminded me of the importance of providing students with relevant role models in all their endeavors. How do we encourage young students to become educators? How do we make sure that hiring practices reflect the need for diversity in the classroom? As Dr. Duncan-Andrade puts it—how do we get those roses that make it to come back to the concrete?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/michelle-obama-princeton-harvard-116390.html#.VS0I_hPF-4Q
Posted by Liz Weil