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How do you actually measure belonging in a classroom? A note on methods.

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Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks

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Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks

Scholar, author of Ethnic Matching (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), and host of The Cultural Context of Knowledge. Research on representation, the teacher workforce, and whose knowledge counts as knowledge.