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Ms. J is a white female teacher who recently began teaching in a low-income urban middle school. She has a cross-categorical special education resource classroom comprised of seven male and three female 7th graders. She has six black students, two Latino/a students, and two white students.
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Mustian, A. (2016). The Impact of Colorblindness on Middle School Students. In: Husband, T. (eds) But I Don’t See Color. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-585-2_7
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