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Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!

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Culturally Responsive Teaching...

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and practice (multicultural education series)

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educational equalization - united states

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teaching - social aspects - united states

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (Multicultural Education Series)

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The achievement of students of color continues to be disproportionately low at all levels of education. More than ever, Geneva Gay's foundational book on culturally responsive teaching is essential reading in addressing the needs of today's diverse student population. Combining insights from mult...

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Book

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biography & autobiography / personal memoirs

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biography & autobiography / lawyers & judges

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social science / ethnic studies / hispanic american studies

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social science/ethnic studies - hispanic american studies

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La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida &m...

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Documentary

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Directed by Ava DuVernay. With Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales. An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

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The Dream-Keepers

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The Dreamkeepers In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style.

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Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock (2017)

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Directed by Myron Dewey, Josh Fox, James Spione. With Autumn DePoe-Hughes. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota captures world attention through their peaceful resistance against the U.S. government's plan to construct an oil pipeline through their land.

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Directed by Mira Nair. With Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Kabanza. A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.

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Directed by Garth Davis. With Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Sunny Pawar. A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

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Directed by Niki Caro. With Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Ramiro Rodriguez, Carlos Pratts. Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach.

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Ted Talk

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Finding Myself in the Story of Race | Debby Irving | TEDx Fenway

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 Ozlem Sensoy (Author), Robin DiAngelo (Author)

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 Ozlem Sensoy (Author), Robin DiAngelo (Author)

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is everyone really equal? an introduction to key concepts in social justice education (multicultural education)

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social science / discrimination & race relations

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social science / social classes & economic disparity

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social science/social classes & economic disparity

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Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education (Multicultural Education)

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''Sensoy and DiAngelo's book sings with insight, clarity, and humanity. This is a brilliant primer to help us consider what it means to think critically and to act for justice.'' -- Bill Bigelow, Curriculum editor, Rethinking Schools magazine''I commend the direction of this book that addresses c...

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The playlist...

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This amazing slice of Turkish psych disco was recorded live at MiniMüzikhol studios in Istanbul in 2010. Thanks to Honest Jon's, it finally got a full UK release - backed by two decent Ricardo Villalobos remixes - earlier this year. These time-dilating grooves, pitch-shifted vocals (the lyrics are modernised verses by the 17th-century poet Kul Nesîmî and 16th-century poet Pir Sultan Abdal), acid house beeps and blats, not to mention smoking bağlama jamming, all add up to an essential Balearic-sounding classic that never outstays its welcome, even at 24 minutes long.

This amazing slice of Turkish psych disco was recorded live at MiniMüzikhol studios in Istanbul in 2010. Thanks to Honest Jon's, it finally got a full UK release - backed by two decent Ricardo Villalobos remixes - earlier this year. These time-dilating grooves, pitch-shifted vocals (the lyrics are modernised verses by the 17th-century poet Kul Nesîmî and 16th-century poet Pir Sultan Abdal), acid house beeps and blats, not to mention smoking bağlama jamming, all add up to an essential Balearic-sounding classic that never outstays its welcome, even at 24 minutes long.

Best metal of the year: Melechesh - Enki

Melechesh are so damn satisfying to listen to. Many metal bands, from the west and the Middle East, try to combine extreme metal with Arabic musical traditions - with a variety of results. But no one nails it like these self-professed Sumerian metal titans, who mix death metal thunder and epic black-metal bombast along Levantine lines. The album features a guest spot by Sepultura founder and world metal enthusiast Max Cavalera and extraordinary art by John Coulthard.

Best soundtrack: Mdou Moctar - Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai OST

Agadez, the largest city in central Niger, is in the Sahara rather than north Africa per se, but like the huge region north of Timbuktu, the city is arguably musically closer to north Africa than central Africa, owing to its Berber and Tuareg heritage. Sahel Sounds's Bandcamp page has been promising this soundtrack by the Agadez-based Moctar for some time, and it's finally here. It is the original score to the film Rain the Colour of Blue With a Little Red in It, which charts the creative rise of Mdou Moctar. (It is loosely based on the Prince movie Purple Rain, but there is no Tuareg word for purple, hence the title.) Revel in the song's liquid guitar playing, carried rattling along on hammering railroad beats.

<a href="http://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/akounak-tedalat-taha-tazoughai-ost">Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai OST by Mdou Moctar</a>

Best album: EEK ft Islam Chipsy - Kahraba

Out via record label Nashazphone, we finally got to hear the debut album proper by the keyboard king of the Nile delta, Islam Chipsy - backed by his two drummers, Khaled Mando and Islam Tata - and it was worth the wait. EEK had already raised expectations with their blistering lo-fi release, EEK Live at the Cairo High Cinema Institute. The tracks that formed the basis of that work - Trinity and Kahraba - were revisited on the studio album but now exploding out of speakers in pointillist high definition. Of even more interest were the tracks Mouled el Ghoul and El Bawaba, which created propulsive Levantine techno by deconstructing Egyptian classical traditions and weaving them into something more organic.

Best compilation: 100Copies Mahraganaat 2015

Cairo mover and shaker Mahmoud Refat - who manages Sadat and Alaa Fifty Cent, and runs the city's only dubplate-cutting facility and the 100Copies studio - has been a key figure in popularising the chaabi sound in Egypt and beyond. This compilation album is one of Refat's productions, and provides a handy snapshot of where this vital scene is at currently. being spotted standing in for one of Islam Chipsy's drummer's on a recent European tour

Best mix: Ernesto Chahoud - Jakarta Radio 010 Middle Eastern Heavens II Mix

Here's an absolutely belting pan-Arabic mix from Ernesto Chahoud, AKA DJ Spindle. Chahoud, who is Lebanese, is the founder of the Beirut Groove Collective, he's a big collector of Middle Eastern belly dance music and this particular mix, Middle Eastern Heavens II, was made for Jakarta Radio.

Best reissue: Ami Shavit - Alpha 1

Ami Shavit was a reclusive Israeli artist and professor who has a fascination with technology, psychology, philosophy and sound. He assembled a private collection of synthesisers in 1972 after a trip to the US and started work on his album Alpha Mood. It combined his love of Tangerine Dream and Philip Glass with then-emerging technique biofeedback to create a new style of music that would induce a meditative state. Shavit lost his enthusiasm for the project after being conscripted into the Israeli army in 1973; he was left profoundly disturbed by his work evacuating battlefield casualties during the short-lived but bloody Yom Kippur war. Until, that is, he realised this music offered him a chance to cope with what he had experienced. The LP was released as a tiny run of 500 copies by the Tel Aviv record store Mango. After it closed, the project faded into obscurity. The upstanding folks at Finders Keepers have just given it a typically lovely reissue, however, and now you can modify your own brainwaves with synths in the comfort of your own home.

Maddest record of the year: Sadaf - CFC

What is it? I'm still no closer to working it out.

John Doran would like to thank everyone who has suggested music for this playlist. Email him about music at john@thequietus.com.

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The playlist: the best Middle Eastern and North African music of 2015 - with Insanlar, Melechesh and Mdou Moctar

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NPR

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World music and features from NPR news, NPR cultural programs, and NPR Music stations.

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Book

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the universal tone: bringing my story to light

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biography & autobiography / composers & musicians

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biography & autobiography / rich & famous

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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light

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"One of the most articulate rock memoirs ever." --San Francisco ChronicleIn 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, a young guitarist played a blistering solo that announced a prodigious talent. Two years later he played a historic set at Woodstock, and the world came to know Carlos Santana ...

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Ted Talk

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For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism?

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Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian activist with an unusual approach to peace-keeping: Be a tourist. The TED Fellow shows how simple interactions with people in different cultures can erode decades of hate. He starts with Palestinians visiting Israelis and moves beyond…

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PBS Learning Media

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LATINO AMERICANS is a landmark six-hour documentary featuring interviews with nearly 100 Latinos and more than 500 years of History.

LATINO AMERICANS is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape North America over the last 500-plus years and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S. The changing and yet repeating context of American history provides a backdrop for the drama of individual lives. It is a story of immigration and redemption, of anguish and celebration, of the gradual construction of a new American identity that connects and empowers millions of people today. Learn More...

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Latino Americans is a landmark three-part, six-hour documentary series that is set to air nationally on PBS in the fall of 2013. It is a story of immigration and redemption, of anguish and celebration, of the gradual construction of a new American identity that connects and empowers millions of people today.

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Book

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what does it mean to be white?: developing white racial literacy (counterpoints)

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foreign language study / english as a second language

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social science / ethnic studies / general

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foreign language study / english as a second language

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social science / ethnic studies / general

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What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy (Counterpoints)

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What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most whites cannot answer that question. Robin DiAngelo argues that a number of factors make this question difficult for whites mis...

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Finding Joy in Teaching....

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finding joy in teaching students of diverse backgrounds: culturally responsive and socially just practices in u.s. classrooms

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education/teaching methods & materials - general

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Finding Joy in Teaching Students of Diverse Backgrounds: Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Practices in U.S. Classrooms

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"While no check-list of attitudes, dispositions, behaviors, or actions can define what thriving teachers look like, the teachers interviewed here give us powerful examples of what it takes to face their profession with courage, their content with enthusiasm, and their students with love." -Sonia ...

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Rethinking Multicultural Education...

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...sitting together in the cafeteria...

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why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria: and other conversations about race

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ethnic studies - african american studies

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race awareness in adolescence - united states

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ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

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social science / anthropology / cultural & social

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social science / ethnic studies / african american studies

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race

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The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum...