Nurturing Dreams and Navigating Grief

Habeebah sits down with her cousin, Sabrina Michelle Crawford (known to  loved ones as Michelle), a school principal and mother to two adult sons. Michelle shares her journey nurturing the dreams and aspirations of her sons while navigating a career in education and grieving her own mother, who passed away while Michelle was in college.

During their conversation, Habeebah and Michelle spend some time discussing  disparities in school discipline that impact Black students. According to data from the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, Black students are more than twice as likely to be suspended than white students. More alarming, disparities in the rate of out-of-school suspension emerge in the pre-kindergarten years. Learn more about this issue by reading "Lost Opportunities: How Disparate School Discipline Continues to Drive Differences in the Opportunity to Learn."

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/school-discipline/lost-opportunities-how-disparate-school-discipline-continues-to-drive-differences-in-the-opportunity-to-learn/Lost-Opportunities-REPORT-v17.pdf

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