Discussion 3 due by noon on 10/3/11

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Prompt:

For various reasons, our societal institutions are in need of transformation in unlearning racism. What is the price society and more specifically, our educational institutions, pays for the system of advantage based on race? How can people, particularly educators, shift themselves from positions of active or passive racism towards active anti-racism?

Cynthia and Edwin