Mass Incarceration and the Achievement Gap
The American Prospect
“Our unjustified incarceration rates should be of urgent concern to anyone interested in narrowing the educational achievement gap.”
Is This How Discrimination Ends?
The Atlantic
“Decades after unraveling this phenomenon, [psychology professor Patricia] Devine wants to find a way to end it. She’s not alone. Since the mid-1990s, researchers have been trying to wipe out implicit bias.”
California education leader calls immigration 'the civil rights issue of our time'
EdSource
“Carl Cohn, executive director of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence that assists districts and schools throughout the state, says immigration is ‘the civil rights issue of our time.’”
Teachers Weave Social-Emotional Learning Into Academics
Education Week
“Around the country, more schools are experimenting with social-emotional learning, buoyed by research that correlates it with positive outcomes, like academic gains and reduced disciplinary incidents.”
“Where's my story?": Ideas for teaching about diversity in books
Lee & Low Books
“The lack of children’s literature that is representative of urban children, people of color, and the wide diversity of society is well-documented. And it means that most of my students have come to know books as largely irrelevant to their lives.”
What it's like to be a teen in L.A. with a parent in the U.S. illegally
The Los Angeles Times
“Garcia, who is now a high school senior, is one of many thousands of teenagers who were born in the U.S. to parents who are in the country illegally. ... These children now are feeling more anxiety than ever about the fate of their parents.”
The Promise And Peril Of School Vouchers
National Public Radio
“Indiana’s statewide voucher program is now the largest of its kind in the country and … the story of the Choice Scholarship—how it came to be, how it works and whom it serves—has become a national story of freedom, faith, poverty and politics.”
The Broken Promises of Choice in New York City Schools
The New York Times
“Fourteen years into the system, black and Hispanic students are just as isolated in segregated high schools as they are in elementary schools—a situation that school choice was supposed to ease.”
The Quiet Wave of School District Secessions
U.S. News & World Report
“Since 1986, 47 school districts have splintered off to create their own whiter and wealthier districts.”
Second largest school district in U.S. moves to protect undocumented immigrants from federal agents
The Washington Post
“The Los Angeles Unified School Board—which runs the second largest school system in the country—just toughened its commitment to protect undocumented immigrant students and their families from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.”
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