Two scholars of inclusive education explain how segregated Black schools advocated for Black children in a way that’s often missing from today’s desegregated classrooms.
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A scholar of race and racism explains what critical race theory is – and how many people get it wrong.
In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
Is the public education that Ruby Bridges fought to integrate a relic of the past?
Instilling a positive sense of ethnic and racial identity and belonging can help children learn.
Concerns over how to make schools safe amid the coronavirus remain. But for many low-income students of color, old buildings in need of repair already presented a heath risk.
Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court as a conservative. But his ruling in a major civil rights case is part of a pattern of justices setting aside ideology to address historic injustices.
School integration is often thought of as something that took place in the 1960s. But the first Black student to desegregate a school by court order was an Iowa girl named Susan Clark in 1868.
When the Supreme Court exempted suburbs in the North from the kind of desegregation orders imposed in the South, it enabled the ‘de facto’ segregation that continues in America’s schools to this day.
While the Brown vs. Board of Education case is often celebrated for ordering school desegregation, history shows many black people in the city where the case began opposed integrated schools.
When Jessie Simmons applied for a teaching job in 1958, her application went to a separate file for “Negro teachers” and got rejected. An education scholar recounts how Simmons fought back and won.
Americans have rediscovered the Supreme Court, as they do periodically when it’s at the center of controversy. With a president who attacks the legitimacy of courts, will their attention be benign?
Better funding, integrated neighborhoods and a diverse teacher workforce are among the things needed to dismantle a long-standing racially segregated school system, a scholar argues.
While Linda Brown is being celebrated for her role in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case that desegregated US schools, a researcher says the story behind the case is more complex.
His landmark contributions to anthropology have faded from memory, despite real-world policy impact during the mid-20th century.
Separating girls and boys takes away opportunities to learn from one another. It also encourages stereotyping and sexism.
The leading conservative magazine National Review has played a critical role in creating modern GOP. Their repudiation of Trump signals crisis for Republicans.
As the affirmative action case comes up before the US Supreme Court again, the question being asked is how much diversity is enough?
One of the many striking aspects of slavery was denial of education to slaves. How is this history reflected in today’s school system?
Racial inequality in America has its parallel in caste inequality in India. What can the world’s two largest democracies learn from each other?
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Associate Professsor of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Justice, Rights and Social Change and Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University
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Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Education and Health Law Clinic, Rutgers University - Newark
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Postdoctoral fellow, Rice University
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Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Professor of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
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Assistant Dean of Educator Preparation & School Partnerships, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Education Studies, University of Oregon
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Professor of Learning Sciences and Inclusive Pedagogy at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Broeklundian Professor of Political Science Emerita, City University of New York
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Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy and Law, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Education, University of South Carolina
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Professor Emeritus, Drake University Law School, Drake University
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Assistant Professor, IUPUI
