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What Does Injustice Have to Do with Me? A Pedagogy of the Privileged
by David Nurenberg, from the Harvard Educational Review, spring 2011
 
Even Geniuses Work Hard
by Carol S. Dweck, Educational Leadership, September 2010
 
Color Blind or Color Conscious?
by Beverly Daniel Tatum, the School Administrator, May 1999
 
When You're Called a Racist
by Beverly Daniel Tatum, National Association of Secondary School Principals Bulletin, September 1999
 
by Peggy McIntosh, 1988
 
The Psychological Experiences of Students of Color
by Michael Thompson, Kathy Schultz, Independent School, summer 2003
 
The Success of African-American Students in Independent Schools
by Edith G. Arrington, Diane M. Hall, Howard C. Stevenson, Independent School, summer 2003
 
 
by Caroline G. Blackwell, Independent School, winter 2006
 
by Jennifer Bryan, Independent School, summer 2010
 
by Brooke Lea Foster, the Washingtonian, September 1, 2005

Professional Development Work on Race and Teaching Practice
a workshop with Gordon's  Julie Parsons and Kimberly Ridley
presented at the NAIS People of Color conference, December 2011
 
Whistling Vivaldi
Claude Steele's 2010 book is an instant classic of social science, using dozens of research studies as vivid illustrations of the ways "stereotype threat" impacts Americans' everyday choices.
 
Gordon faculty read the book over the summer of 2011, and parents gathered for a facilitated discussion on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011.
 
Hear Claude Steele 
Claude Steele, NPR interview with Neal Conan, April 12, 2010
 
Sample a chapter
Chapter nine is the heart of the book; look it over online.
 
Buy the book
Get it from GCA volunteers, who will be selling it at dismissal on Tuesday, October 4th and Thursday, October 6th, or order it through a local independent bookstore. 
 
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