Materials from Meeting with Howard Stevenson, Nov. 3
Arrington, Edith G., Hall, Diane M., and Stevenson, Howard C.
The Success of African American Students in Independent Schools
Guinier, Lani. The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, & Transforming Democracy
Kozol, Jonathan. America's Educational Apartheid
Links to Diversity Resources for Parents and Students:
Big Picture/ Small World: Leadership 101, short online movie http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/movies/Lead/Lead.html
Eastern Educational Resource Collaborative (Area Independent School Diversity Coordinators) http://easted.org/resources/journal.cfm
Friends Council on Education http://www.friendscouncil.org/
National Association of Independent Schools, See Equity and Justice http://www.nais.org/
National Museum of the American Indian http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People http://www.pflag.org/
Parenting Dos and Don'ts, Rich Lodish (Summer 2005)
People Like Us: Social Class in America http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus
Race: The Power of An Illusion http://www.pbs.org/race
The Tolerance Project, a Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.tolerance.org/
Recommended Reading
Deutschman, Alan. "Change or Die," Fast Company (May 2005).
Bielaczyc, Matthew Stuart. "Building Communities. Understanding Complexities. How Does a Head of School Encourage Parents and Trustees to Support the Inclusion of Gay and Lesbian Issues at an Independent School?"
Gladwell, Malcom. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 2005).
Stevenson, Howard C., Spencer, Margaret B., and Johnson, Jerry. "The Mental Health of African American Males in Independent Schools" (University of Pennsylvania)
Vedantam, Shankar. "See No Bias" (reprinted from the Washington Post).
Williams, Bob. "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones But Names Can Also Hurt Me"