TOPIC: Diversity, Disparities, and Promoting Equity

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Center Briefs & Policy Notes

• Diversity Competence for Psychological Practitioners: Eliminating Disparities in Psychological Practices
• ESSA, equity of opportunity, and addressing barriers to learning
• Immigrant Children and Youth: Enabling Their Success at School
• Integrated student supports and equity
• Underrepresented Minorities: Making it to and Staying in Postsecondary Education

Information Resources

• About Neurodiversity
• Appreciating the Impact of Intersectionality in Education Settings Using the Example of Females of Color
• Body Image and Eating Disorders Among Southeast Asians: A Student's Perspective
• Diversity in Schools: Facilitating Positive Interactions
• Generational Conflict and Southeast Asian Immigrant and American Students’ Problems at School
• Socioeconomic and Racial Segregation and Discrimination: A Student’s Perspective and Analysis of the Impact on Schools">
• Immigrant Youth: Some Implications for Schools
• International Students: Understanding and Addressing Problems Experienced During the Pandemic
• International Students and the Added Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Racial Diversity in Schools: Some of the Benefits
• Teacher Bias and Its Impact on Teacher-Student Relationships: The Example of Favoritism
  
• Transgender Students and Schools
  
• Understanding Diversity to Better Address Barriers to Learning
  

Publications

• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement
• Native American students going to and staying in postsecondary education: An intervention perspective.
• Reorganizing Student Supports to Enhance Equity
• Social-Emotional Well-Being of Students with Disabilities: The Importance of Student Support Staff

Guides to Practice

• Mental Health and School-Based Health Centers

Practice Notes

• Schools and Eating Disorders: Addressing Differences
• Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students and Their Families

Introductory Packet

• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Teams to School-Community-Higher Education Connections

Quarterly ejournal/newsletter

• Special Edition: Addressing Disparities by Enhancing Equity of Opportunity at School
• Countering LD and ADHD False Positive Diagnoses: Another Pandemic Challenge
• Diversity and Professional Competence in Schools' a mental health perspective

Quickfinds

• Cultural Competence and Related Issues

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Sexual Minority Students

Training and presentation resources

• Information Resources on Youth Subcultures: Understanding Subgroups to Better Address Barriers to Learning & Improve Schools

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Health
• Addressing racial equity can boost well-being among school staff and students of color
• Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs
• Guidance for the National Healthcare Disparities Report
• Health Equity and Prevention Primer
• Improving Environments for Health & Health Equity
• Opportunities for Achieving Equity in Adolescence
• Organizing to Address Minority Health Disparities: A Directory of State and Local Initiatives
• The Promise of Adolescence - Realizing Opportunity for All Youth
• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

Education
• Advancing Equity: Five Districts Focus on Improving Outcomes of Black and Latinx Students
• Amid a surprising pandemic recovery, academic inequality grew. What now?
• Born to Win, Schooled to Lose
• The Complementary Benefits of Racial and Socioeconomic Diversity in Schools
• District plan to address equity, diversity, and inclusion
• Diversity in schools – How to diversify your curriculum
• Explore Your School’s Changing Demographics
• A New Wave of School Integration: Districts and Charters Pursuing Socioeconomic Diversity
• Categorical Inequality: Schools as Sorting Machines
• Disparities in High School Graduation by Identity and Disability Using Intermediate and Long-Term Educational Outcomes
• Do Parents Really Want School Integration?
• Diversity Toolkit: Cultural Competence for Educators
• Does classroom diversity improve intergroup relations? Short and longer-term effects of classroom diversity for cross-ethnic friendships and anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescence
• Educational Equity: Solutions Through Social and Emotional Well-Being
• Equity in Education: Key Questions to Consider
• Equity Toolkit for Administrators (Colorado Dept. of Education)
• How Can Schools Assess and Address Educational Disparities?
• How Does Equity Differ from Equality in Education?
• How Racially Diverse Schools and Classrooms Can Benefit All Students
• How the nation’s growing racial diversity is changing our schools
• How States Allocate Funding for Students From Low-Income Backgrounds
• Identity, equity, and transformation
• Inclusive education: A complicated but necessary process
• Instructional Practices That Integrate Equity-Centered Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning
• K-12 School Diversity and Social Cohesion: Evidence in Support of a Compelling State Interest
• Long-run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality On Adult Attainments
• National Coalition on School Diversity
• Learning with others: A study exploring the relationship between collaboration, personalization, and equity
• Migration, displacement, and education: Building bridges not walls
• Navigating cultural diversity in American education
• Our Nation's English Language Learners
• Prioritizing Strategies to Racially Diversify the K–12 Teacher Workforce
• Perpetuating Separate and Unequal Worlds of Educational Opportunity Through District Lines: School Segregation by Race and Poverty
• Promoting Racial/Ethnic Identity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Treatments
• Promoting an equitable and supportive school climate in high schools: The role of school organizational health and staff burnout
• Questions and Answers on Title IX and Single-Sex Elementary and Secondary Classes and Extracurricular Activities
• Race and LGBTQ Issues in K-12 Schools
• Reducing Disparities Beginning in Early Childhood
• Racial equity tools
• Racial/Ethnic Enrollment in Public Schools
• Recent developments in the quest for racial diversity in K-12 schools
• Reducing neurodisparity Recommendations of the 2017 AAN Diversity Leadership Program
• The relations of a school’s capacity for institutional diversity to student achievement in socio-economically, ethnically, and linguistically diverse schools
• Six Findings in the Post’s Analysis of Diversity in School Districts
• Social Justice Issues in Education: Unpacking Inequities and Solutions
• Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups
• Student Choice as a Vehicle for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Student, Teacher, and School Characteristics Associated with English Learners' Academic Performance
• Supporting English Learner Students With Disabilities
• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
• United We Learn: Honoring America’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity In Education
• What 12k Students Tell Us About Equity in Education: Infographic
• Which Language 'Superpowers' Do Bilingual Students Bring to U.S. Schools?

Housing
• Social Disparities in Housing and Related Pediatric Injury

Employment
• Resume and Employment Guide for People With Disabilities
• Urban Economic Growth and Chronic Poverty

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