The Algebra Project – a long-standing initiative to teach algebra to Black students who might not otherwise take it – sprang from Bob Moses’ work as a civil rights activist, a historian recounts.
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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.
A scholar of spelling bees explains why Zaila Avant-garde’s victory at the National Scripps Spelling Bee is significant from a historical perspective.
‘White fragility’ plays a strong role in denying Black high school students valedictorian or salutatorian status.
Applying cultural sensitivity in teaching STEM to Black students can help them engage in the sciences more.
New research uncovers sizable gaps in how college students from different ethnic backgrounds trust the people in charge of their schools. Could a history of racism be to blame?
Although school boards have yet to find a systemic way to combat anti-Black racism, educators are in a unique position to correct these injustices.
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.
An 1850 act permitted the creation of separate schools for Protestants, Catholics and for any five Black families. Some white people used the act to force Black students into separate institutions.
Racial disparities in the tech sector begin well before college.
Three experts weigh in on how college students will be taking activism from the streets to online this fall.
Young Black Canadian writers like Desmond Cole and Eternity Martis look at anti-Black racism on campus.
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.
Decades of inadequate teaching material and resources to support Black students in Ontario means they are severely underserved by their schools.
Recent blackface scandals that involve college yearbooks have overshadowed how yearbooks also chronicled important turning points in the history of US higher education, a historian argues.
Negative statistics about black students may be prevalent, but they are often out of context, misleading or just plain wrong, a professor of counseling psychology argues.
Using the term ‘at-risk’ to describe students from challenging circumstances often creates more problems than it solves, a professor of counseling psychology argues.
T.M. Landry College Prep, facing allegations of abuse, is known for getting students from poor backgrounds into Ivy League schools. An education scholar says the school’s focus was misplaced.
Even though Maryland college football coach DJ Durkin has been fired, his 11th hour ouster will not rid college football of some of its deepest problems, argue two scholars on race and college sports.
Black students need support within an academy that marginalizes them. Other–othering – a philosophy of care that recognizes the holistic impact of racism is one solution.
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada
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PhD candidate (ABD) and researcher, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Professor of Counseling Psychology, Howard University
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Associate Professor of Education, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor of Educational Administration, Michigan State University
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University
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Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, The Ohio State University
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University Lecturer in English Literature, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in Education, The University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Florida
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Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Emory University
