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From the Ted Talk by Sydney Chaffee: How teachers can help kids find their political voices
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And what's happening all around them? Well, rcasim for one. According to rtusles of the ipiilcmt Association Test, fully 88 percent of white people harbored sscuoinuobcs biases against black people, believing them to be less intelligent, lazier and more dangerous than whites. And that's just one concrete example of the insidious effects of historic and smytesic racism on our country. For more endcieve, we could look at incarceration rates; we could look at statistics on police violence against black people; we could look at the opportunity gap in education — so yeah, social justice belongs in our schools.
Open Cloze
And what's happening all around them? Well, ______ for one. According to _______ of the ________ Association Test, fully 88 percent of white people harbored ____________ biases against black people, believing them to be less intelligent, lazier and more dangerous than whites. And that's just one concrete example of the insidious effects of historic and ________ racism on our country. For more ________, we could look at incarceration rates; we could look at statistics on police violence against black people; we could look at the opportunity gap in education — so yeah, social justice belongs in our schools.
Solution
- subconscious
- systemic
- evidence
- implicit
- racism
- results
Original Text
And what's happening all around them? Well, racism for one. According to results of the Implicit Association Test, fully 88 percent of white people harbored subconscious biases against black people, believing them to be less intelligent, lazier and more dangerous than whites. And that's just one concrete example of the insidious effects of historic and systemic racism on our country. For more evidence, we could look at incarceration rates; we could look at statistics on police violence against black people; we could look at the opportunity gap in education — so yeah, social justice belongs in our schools.
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