Soon after she had gone to jail for trying to get her children a better education by falsifying her family’s address, Kelley Williams-Bolar’s teenage daughter Jada confronted her mother with…
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In the books she read growing up, Nancy Jennings saw a lot of school buses cruising across the pages. She had always wanted to ride in one, but Jennings lived…
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Fifty years ago, the landmark Supreme Court decision Milliken v. Bradley made it exceedingly difficult to desegregate schools across district lines through the federal court system. Subsequent court rulings and recent backlash to racial…
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During my first two years of teaching, I dealt with many situations that left me feeling downtrodden, broken and totally drained. For example, one day, I was sitting in my…
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As a novice teacher in 1999, I was grateful to have a colleague across the hall who was also new to the profession. We swapped stories, shared strategies, and commiserated…
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When they voted earlier this year to let police officers use a dangerous form of restraint on students in schools, Minnesota Democratic lawmakers said they did so because they had brokered a…
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The disparity is so stark that it’s possible Latinas will never catch up with other women, according to the largest report of its kind.
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Climate change and its related disasters have brought a new set of risks to homeowners, renters and the value of property—but also a chance for change. The multiple challenges posed by these disasters offer an opportunity to reevaluate our housing policy, especially concerning making traditional housing markets more effective and inclusive. Among the many sectors…
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Fueled by the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that bans affirmative action in higher education, conservative lawmakers across the country have advanced their own state bans on diversity initiatives, especially…
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About half of Black Americans say the health care system holds Black people back and that nonconsensual medical research happens today.
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New data on Asian American attitudes about education shows this demographic wants their children to be engaged citizens, beyond a focus on math and science.