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The Power of Challenging the Black ‘Achievement Gap’
An accomplished researcher, scholar, and advocate for equity in education, Dr. Ivory Toldson believes parents of Black K-12 students should no longer fall victim to the B.S. education narrative. But...
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The Black Teacher Pipeline Matters Regardless of Trump
In schools across the United States, Black teachers make up only about 7% of the teaching workforce, even though Black students account for around 15% of public school enrollment. Yet research...
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Amid DEI Rollbacks, HBCU Students Need More Than Allies
While former President Donald Trump continues rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion policies meant to expand opportunities for underrepresented groups, a campus group at Spelman College is...
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Bringing Black Studies to Black People
Every other weekend, give or take, Stanford University professor Dr. Adam Banks boards a jetliner for a 4-hour, 40-minute flight from the San Francisco Bay Area to Cleveland, his hometown, to teach...
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Title I Funding in Limbo: What’s at Stake for Black Students
For decades, Title I funding has been a financial backbone for schools serving low-income and predominantly Black students, helping pay for things like after-school tutoring. But now, those funds are...
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Trump’s DEI Ban and the Civil Rights of Black Students
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Dear Colleague letter to K-12 school districts with an ultimatum: eliminate DEI programs in two weeks — or...
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White House Suspends Chief Education Data Commissioner
The White House sent shockwaves through the education community last week when it suspended an esteemed federal official responsible for “the nation’s report card.” The move, experts say, could hamper...
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Ed Dept. Portal Encourages “Snitching” on DEI
Here they go again. First, there were state-level restrictions on teaching Black history in public K-12 classrooms, along with corresponding book bans. Then, the Trump 2.0 administration stripped...
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California’s Black Student Crisis Is Everyone’s Problem
For decades, California has positioned itself as a national leader in education equity and school funding. However, new data shows that Black K-12 students in the Golden State are so far from reaching...
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Parents Need to Pay Attention to Artificial Intelligence, Too
Advocates say it’s a game-changer in education, a high-tech tool that can reach students where they are. Opponents say it’s flawed and biased, mostly because its designers don’t have black students in...
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Hosts Black Read-In When Schools Wouldn’t
Home to the school district with the largest percentage of Black children in Iowa, schoolchildren in the city of Waterloo, population 67,000, typically participated in an annual statewide “read-in”...
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Trump Slashes Education Department, Puts Marginalized Students at Risk
By Stacy M. Brown The Trump administration has taken its first steps in dismantling the Department of Education, slashing more than 1,300 jobs and closing regional offices in cities including New...
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Department of Ed Cuts are Real, and Black Students Will Feel It
Now that President Donald Trump’s employment cuts to the Department of Education are in, education experts and analysts are assessing the impact of dropping more than 1,300 jobs from a department...
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The Battle for DEI on Campus Is Just Beginning
I’ll never forget the day I stepped onto Ohio State’s campus for the first time, a college freshman in the middle of the pandemic moving out of state and starting classes on Zoom. While I never...
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Black Students Are the Future of Journalism
For over a century, the Black press has been a force for change: Ida B. Wells investigated lynching for the Chicago Defender when no one else would, reporters at the Baltimore Afro documented the...
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Art, Curation and Racial Healing at Spelman College
In the summer of 2020, when social media users and some corporations posted black squares to protest George Floyd’s murder, Amanda Williams, a Chicago-based visual artist, decided to make a different...
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Special Ed Isn’t Fair to Black Kids — and DEI Cuts Won’t Help
For years, Black parents and educators have sounded the alarm: far too many Black students — especially boys — are wrongfully placed in special education as a form of discipline rather than academic...
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Trump Begins Axing the Dept. of Education
Fulfilling a campaign promise – one that experts say will significantly harm Black students — President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping executive order today that begins dismantling the...
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Women Lead the Way: Black Women Shape Academia
By Lois Elfman African American women are helping to shape academia — as professors, researchers, deans, and college and university presidents. Although they comprise fewer than 5% of individuals in...
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Reading the Room: Why Black Kids Need More Than the Norm
When this year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress showed Black kids’ reading proficiency was the lowest of any racial group, some critics blamed education reforms like the Science of...
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