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Executive Summary. Pervasive ethnic and racial disparities in education follow a pattern in which African-American, American Indian, Latino and Southeast Asian groups underperform academically, relative to Caucasians and other Asian-Americans. These educational disparities.
Apr 30, 2024 · Unadjusted differences evidenced moderate to large racial and socioeconomic disparities in access to educational opportunity assessed through neighborhood-level early childhood education enrollment, primary school achievement, and secondary school attainment, with Asian and White children having greater access to neighborhood educational opportu...
- Rebekah Levine Coley
- Begin with the self. Practitioners enter conversations about race and racism from different backgrounds, with different lived experiences, personal and professional perspectives, and funds of knowledge in their grasps.
- Model vulnerability. Entering into discussions of race and racism can be challenging, even for those with experience in this work. A key part of enabling participants to lean into the challenge is being vulnerable.
- Be transparent. Part of being vulnerable is being fully transparent with your students from day one. “Intentions are important,” explains McCarthy. “The gap between intention and impact is often rooted in a lack of transparency about where you’re coming from or where you are hoping to go.”
- Center voices of color. Voice and story are powerful tools in this work. Leaders must consider whose voices and stories take precedence on the syllabus.
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Under conditions of racial and economic segregation, black, Hispanic, and low-income students disproportionately attend schools with high concentrations of other black, Hispanic, and low-income students, while students from white and nonpoor families attend schools with other white children and children from families with more resources.
May 2, 2019 · May 2, 2019. Racial segregation in public education has been illegal for 65 years in the United States. Yet American public schools remain largely separate and unequal — with profound...
May 11, 2021 · The most significant contributors to educational disparities amongst the nation’s racial and ethnic minorities include poverty, segregation and racial school districting, inadequate language resources for English language learners, bullying, and lack of access to health resources.
