student achievement
We All Carry Implicit Biases. Christopher House Is Learning to See and Change Them.
Research shows that, as early as preschool, racial bias affects student learning. From a young age, we adults are treating children differently based on their skin color, and we are nearly always...
bias
27 Mistakes White Teachers of Black Students Make and How to Fix Them
Editor's note: This article was updated on July 24, 2024. A few years back, I was in my room meeting parents during an open house days before the school year started. A woman walked in, looked up...
California
Black Families, These Are Not the Democrats Who Will Save Us
While watching the Public Education Forum 2020 on Saturday, one phrase caught my attention: Democratic “hopefuls,” referring to the presidential candidates in attendance. Given that we call these...
School Choice
Black Kids Don't Need to Sit Next to White Kids to Learn
Over the last decade, and indeed for longer than that, those fighting for justice, many of them White, have largely looked to integration as the panacea for educational inequity. The Center for...
Achievement Gap
Here's How We Got Educating Black Kids Wrong Again in the 2010s
Congratulations, America! You’ve once again managed to provide the shittiest public education for Black students and families. So as we close out this decade and enter a new year, I’ve taken the...
equity
We Were Making Progress on School Discipline Until Betsy DeVos Came Along
At the turn of the century, in 1999, I was graduating from high school, motivated to enter the teaching profession with a passion to reform school discipline practices and eliminate the...
