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About East Ed & How to Contact Us
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Contact East Ed
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Mail:
East Ed
Eastern Educational Resource Collaborative
P.O. Box 57011
Washington, D.C. 20037
Phone/Fax:
Ph: 202-464-1996
Fax: 202-464-1997
Email:
info@easted.org
Webmaster:
chall@easted.org
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What is East Ed?
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The Mission of East Ed
In support of diversity
In our schools and neighborhoods, educators and community activists have an evolving obligation to ensure that our learning and living environments reflect the rising cultural diversity of our nation. Our lessons and teaching methods must be transformative not just additive and our decision-making must be inclusive and welcoming of our neighbors and families.
Eastern Education Resource Collaborative's (East Ed) mission is to serve as a resource to schools and agencies and support the establishment of equitable, anti-bias, multicultural environments.
Diversity is who we are, now and into the future. Our collective history is replete with injustice to diversity, violence to diversity and oppression of diverse others. Therefore, as we seek to establish a gender-fair, race-aware direction, we must actively work to ensure the injustices of the past and the resultant laws, habits and traditions that created hierarchies of race, social class, gender, ability and sexual orientation, religion, age and ethnicity are recognized and neutralized.
In support of multicultural education
While the dominant direction of inclusion in the past 40 years has been to bring difference into the "big tent" where it is claimed that there is room for all, multiculturalism offers something more intentional. We are known by what we are not. Therefore the more of what we are not is present, the more we know ourselves? Moving more toward quality, multiculturalism has us consider the qualitative reality that diversity experiences. How safe is a gay person? To what degree is a Black student included in the arts program of a school? Are Asians really welcomed in the sports programs? Welcome, included and safe are the measures of multiculturalism, the qualitative side of diversity.
Multicultural education is the pedagogy, content and assessment of diversity within a school's curriculum-obvious and hidden and all aspects of school life. It asks the questions: In an increasingly pluralistic society, what knowledge is of most good to learners? By what methods do learners best acquire that knowledge? What measures allow us to determine if that knowledge has been acquired?
In support of equity and justice
"There can be no equity without justice…" Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Different from equality which argues that we shall all have equal amounts, equal access, and the same number of resources, equity requires that we are provided what we require to be equal, to achieve, to cross the finish line, to have ownership.
Justice demands that we view the world from the perspective of the least advantaged. Basing our curricula and our programs on the needs of the least advantaged allows us to view the full spectrum of human condition. It is from this perspective, not from a patronizing, self-promoting perspective that we derive a true sense of justice.
In support of practical appropriate services, events and tools
East Ed programs, services, bulletins and Institutes speak to diversity, multicultural education and justice. We embrace a collaborative model that suggests the solutions to a community's problems exist within a dialogue between members of its community.
We serve schools, colleges, community agencies and families. Join Us!
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