Category Archives: Structural Racism
A Welcome New Education Declaration
The National Equity Project joins the thousands of educators and other Americans who have applauded the new “Education Declaration to Rebuild America.” We join our advisory board member Linda Darling-Hammond and our colleagues from the Coalition for Community Schools, the … Continue reading
Hugh Vasquez on Internalized Oppression
National Equity Project Senior Associate Hugh Vasquez will join the radio program A Safe Place to Talk About Race on Monday, November 5, at 4pm EST, 1pm PST. The program streams live online via the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel. Episode description: … Continue reading
Posted in Bias, Internalized Oppression, racial equity, Structural Racism
Tagged equity, internalized racism, structural racism
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Confronting Systemic Inequity in Education
That’s the title of a report by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). It’s written for foundations but has insights and data that are useful for other equity workers. (The PDF is free, the fee is for the printed report.) The … Continue reading
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Tagged meritocracy, philanthropy, systems change, whole system reform
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The Moral Imperative: With the Kellogg Foundation Learning Labs in Mississippi
The Learning Labs is a national movement to radically improve early learning (birth to age 5) for all children in the United States. Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the movement consists of a partnership of innovative state-level early learning … Continue reading
A policy in need of turnaround
This is a share from the Public Education Network weekly news blast: In a commentary in Education Week, [National Equity Project Advisory Board member] Pedro Noguera and Alan Blankstein lament the approach to school turnarounds prescribed by the DOE, which they … Continue reading
Mass Incarceration and the school to prison pipeline
We are disturbed and inspired to action by Michelle Alexander’s research and analysis, summed up in her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The information below does not directly touch on education, but it speaks deeply to … Continue reading
Too Important to Fail: The Dropout Crisis of African American Males
Tavis Smiley is a busy man. Besides a “poverty tour” with Dr. Cornel West, he is producing video episodes for his PBS show, including this recent one on the challenges of the high school drop out crisis among African American males, … Continue reading
Targeted Universalism
As described in the last post, Professor john powell gave a webinar recently through our colleagues at the Leadership Learning Community. In the webinar, a recording of which is available on line, powell talked about how systems thinking and a … Continue reading
Posted in Bias, Changing the Discourse, racial equity, Structural Racism
Tagged bias, equitable policy, social justice, targeted universalism
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systems thinking and racial equity
Professor john powell (he does not capitalize his name) gave a webinar recently through our colleagues at the Leadership Learning Community. In the webinar, a recording of which is available on line, powell talked about how systems thinking and a … Continue reading
Employment Disparities Post-Education
What if we are working like mad to improve access to quality education, and when more students of color graduate high school and college… there are no jobs waiting for them? The stark disparities in employment rates point out the … Continue reading
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Tagged disparities, education and labor, employment
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