This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I am one of few African-American educators in a predominantly white school district. After I reported witnessing dozens of white students in a group using the N-word on school property,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Far too few minority students pursue or complete their education beyond high school. Instead of dreaming about where they want to attend college, or what they want to study, many…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Latino community in Boston faces many of the same issues around race and inequality as the Black community. For Latinos, one of the biggest challenges has been to find…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Woodrow Wilson High School students in Camden, N.J., see a rich orange flame in a chemistry lab that digs into atomic structure of elements. Erika Leak, the class’s chemistry teacher,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Do you understand systemic and historical underpinnings of racial inequities in our society today? You can study how racial inequity is showing up in your county through the website, www.racecounts.org. Consider what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Declared the “worst schools in the nation” by Education Secretary William Bennett in 1987, Chicago today is the fastest-improving district in the country, according to Stanford professor Sean Reardon, with students…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Academia Antonia Alonso, which opened as a public charter school in 2014, was designed to meet the needs of a linguistically diverse population. School leaders took full advantage of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic justice which make philanthropy necessary.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a society moving towards greater racial equity as well as greater racial diversity, we would expect to see the uppermost classes becoming more heterogeneous. So: how white is the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sitting in a tarpee erected outside the Capitol Building in the US state of Washington, seven Indigenous women and their supporters have vowed to stay put. They will stay until they are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Yet in New York City, as in districts across the country, there is a glaring disconnect between many students’ race or ethnicity and their teachers’: While 83 percent of New…