This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gifted programs in elementary schools aren’t adequately serving Black and low-income students, research finds. “The potential benefits aren’t equally distributed,” says lead author and University of Florida College of Education…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women journalists and journalists of color aren’t paid as well as their white male counterparts in 14 Gannett newsrooms, and journalists in unionized newsrooms are paid better than those in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For queer-BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) identifying individuals, the endless and unique intersections of one’s identities can make it difficult to find yourself authentically represented in the arts. Working…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The diversity of students in this country is increasing, but the diversity of our teaching force is not. Just seven percent of our country’s teachers are Black. Yet research tells us that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Philadelphia’s offices, museums, and shops all shuttered in March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s Indego bike-share service saw its total ridership plummet. Downtown commuters began working…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Navajo Nation — a Native American territory that spans Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in the United States — recently had a 10-day streak of zero COVID-19 related deaths. The population of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Each and every person can be a philanthropist, and I believe philanthropy is more about generosity than it is about wealth. As a Muslim, I am invited by my faith…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the aftermath of the powerful racial justice protests that swept the nation in the summer of 2020, the Raikes Foundation launched the Black Leadership & Power Fund to support leaders of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The times are calling us to find and address root causes: A global pandemic, deepening inequities, worsening natural disasters, a tsunami of species extinctions, rising authoritarianism around the world, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A creek running through the city of Ames in central Iowa was officially renamed from Squaw Creek to Ioway Creek in February 2021, after a yearlong process that involved local…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last fall, a poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Undefeated showed that seven out of 10 Black Americans believe that people are treated unfairly based on race or ethnicity…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Racially motivated violence looks like the mass shootings that killed Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Chung Park, Hyun Grant and Suncha Kim in Atlanta on March 16, 2021. Racially motivated violence…