For many teachers, a pall has been cast over the first few days of school. This weekend, a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned deadly when a 20-year-old man drove his car into counter-protesters, fatally injuring one woman and hurting 19 others. The Associated Press reported that the high school teacher of the man accused of the incident said he had been fascinated with Nazism in school, and had "deeply held, radical" convictions on race in the 9th grade.
Even before the violence, the images of the white supremacists—including neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan—marching in droves were shocking. And they left many teachers wondering how they would address this overt display of racism and hatred in class.
[For more of this story, written by Madeline Will, go to http://blogs.edweek.org/teache...sville_students.html]
[For resources to address racism in the classroom, please visit http://inservice.ascd.org/reso...ed-in-the-classroom/]
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