This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mississippi’s for-profit colleges are largely drawing low-income students, students of color and women, putting these residents at risk of incurring more debt compared to their peers at nonprofit schools. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The first thing an economist looks for in this kind of situation is earnings differences. I’ll concentrate on black and Hispanic faculty while leaving gender for another day. The simple…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On an unseasonably frigid Thursday in November, Julian Vasquez Heilig, who is both a professor at California State University Sacramento and the California NAACP education chair, stood before an audience…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the most damning features of the U.S. criminal justice system is its vast racial inequity. Black people in this country are imprisoned at more than 5 times the…
In 2000, I graduated from Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Central opened in 1979 after a federal court order forced the mostly segregated high schools in the Tuscaloosa City…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Guatemala is a tough place to be a kid. The fastest growing country and primary recipient of U.S. remittances in Central America is also one of the hemisphere’s poorest nations,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We’re still several years out from 2020, but funders are already preparing for a census that experts believe will be unusually fraught by challenges like underfunding, cybersecurity threats, partisan sabotage…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, a girl in Melody Gonzalez’s class at Las Palmas Middle School, in the San Gabriel Valley, started sobbing in class one day. Gonzales asked her what was wrong.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The nonprofit sector has a board diversity problem. A recent BoardSource report[1]showed that nonprofit boards are no more racially and ethnically diverse than they were two decades ago and that “current…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The longtime superintendent of the Manhattan community district where parents pushed for a plan to desegregate the local schools is stepping down just as the plan gets underway. After a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you don’t like the idea of investing in companies with poor records on issues like sexual harassment in the workplace or gender diversity in boardrooms, here’s a new option…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I’ve been frustrated for 20 years watching children be forced, based on ZIP code, based on parents’ income, based on the parents’ parents’ ZIP code and income, not be able…