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Articles and PowerPoints
Session 1: Education as a Human Right
Education as a Human Right, PowerPoint, Elizabeth Sullivan, NESRI
The Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the U.S.- Domestic Implementation of the Right to Education, Global Rights
Education by Rights, Yes Magazine, Liz Sullivan and Cecelia Blewer
Session 2: The Current State of Education
Leaving No Child, School, or Community Behind , Scott Abernathy
Parent's guide to No Child Left Behind , Wrightslaw, Susan Heath
No Child Left Behind Fact Sheet: What Parents of English Language Learners Need to Know, Bloomington Public Schools
Evaluating No Child Left Behind, The Nation, Linda Darling-Hammond
Session 3: Identifying Barriers to Accessing Education in the U.S.
Racial and Economic Segregation in Schools: Barrier to Quality and Equality in Education, PowerPoint, Baris Gumus-Dawes
2006 State of Students of Color Report, Executive Summary, Minnesota Minority Education Partnership
The Choice is Ours: Expanding Educational Opportunity for all Twin Cities childiren, Institute on Race and Poverty
Fifty Years after Brown v. Board of Education: A Two Tiered Education System Executive Summary, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future
African American Achievement in America, Fact Sheet, Education Trust
Latino Achievement in America, Fact Sheet, Education Trust
Notice of Procedural Safeguards: Parental Rights for Public School Special Education Students, Minnesota Department of Education
Involving Immigrant Parents of Students with Disabilities in the Educational Process, Council for Exceptional Child, Suha al-Hassan and Ralph Garder III
Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return, FedGazette, Gederal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Art Roinick and Rob Grunewald
Session 4: Addressing the Barrier to Equitable Access to Education
Reframing School Discipline through Human Rights Standard, Children's Rights Litiation Committee, Liz Sullivan
New LAUSD discipline policy is first step to positive behavior, not just punishment, Learning Power News, Christine O'Keefe
"This is My Home" Learning Resources Tool Kit to "Educate and Eliminate" discrimination, Minnesota Department of Human Rights Online Newspaper
Blacked Out, City Pages, Britt Robson
Additional Resources
Quiz PowerPoint, Kathleen O'Donnell
Education of Homeless Children and Youth, Fact Sheet #10, National Coalition for the Homeless
Not Your Parents' Breakfast Club: After-School Clubs, School Districts, and Disaffected Groups, The Hennepin Lawyer, Phillip J. Trobaugh
Funding Gaps 2006, Education Trust, Goodwin Liu, Ross Wiener, Eli Pristoop, and Marguerite Roza
Federal Model Policy on the Civil Rights of Pregnant and Parenting Student, California Women's Law Center
A Shared Responsibility: Staffing All High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools with Effective Teachers and Administrators, A Framework for Action (2005), Learning First Alliance