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ATLANTA — The Georgia Professional Standards Commission voted unanimously to remove words like “diversity”, “equity” and “inclusion” from teacher training rules Thursday. Starting July 1, teacher training programs are no longer required to discuss the words when preparing educators for the classroom. Teachers and civil rights advocates present for the vote called the commissioners “shameful.” “They know what they’re doing. Education is an institution that can either destroy or nurture future generations, but they don’t want strong generations. They want disempowered generations in pain under this white supremacist violence,” said Jonathan Peraza-Campos with the Intercultural Development Research Association. The words...

Advocates of multicultural education from schools and colleges across the country gathered in Kansas City the week before the 2004 presidential election to rededicate themselves to transforming teaching and school systems into instruments of social justice as they define it. Many of the more than 200 presentations at the 14th annual conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) focused on teacher preparation as the best hope for making multicultural diversity the engine of educational progress. At one session, presenters from Central Missouri State University and local school districts expressed the view that teachers should be trained to rewrite...

States Give Community Colleges a Role in Educating Teachers As the institutions offer degrees -- including four-year ones -- questions of quality arise By JAMILAH EVELYN Faced with a projected shortage of teachers over the next decade, at least 20 states are turning to community colleges to help identify and train prospective elementary- and secondary-school educators. In one of the most ambitious efforts, Florida's St. Petersburg College received legislative approval last summer to begin offering bachelor's degrees in teacher education; other two-year colleges are expected to win similar approval. Also last summer, Maryland officials began allowing community colleges to award...