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Study Confirms: White Educators Harming Black Girls With Biased Discipline

A Black child will have a fundamentally different schooling experience than their white peers. A new federal report shows that bias in the daily experience of school for Black girls is profoundly...

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Want to Be an Engaged Citizen? Read Banned Books by Authors of Color.

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's words would have made her a literary giant no matter what, but her position as one of our country's 'most-banned' authors gives her an arguably more important...

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bias

School Leaders, What are You Doing About Your Schools’ Racial Bias?

It’s 8:45 a.m. on a Tuesday. Do you know where your school’s culture is on the continuum of cultural proficiency? Is it trending towards proficiency or cultural destructiveness? Where (in your...

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student achievement

Education Organizations Remain Grossly Underrepresentative of a Growing Latinx Population

My community—the Latinx community—is the fastest-growing population in the U.S, accounting for 52% of growth in the last decade. Latinx students currently represent nearly one in three K-12 students....

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student achievement

This Is Our Window of Opportunity to Create a Diverse Teacher Workforce

Racial segregation remains a major issue for American students more than 65 years after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education. Racial segregation is especially...

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CRT

You Don't Have to Be a Critical Race Scholar to Apply a Critical Race Lens to Your Practice

In education, we have a tendency to overcomplicate things by getting caught up with sophisticated academic jargon for things that, I believe, are common sense. Differentiation, culturally relevant...

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