Equity & Diversity
Insights into how issues of equity, diversity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and religious beliefs impact schools
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Browse and register for free professional development on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender and gender identity, and religious beliefs and schools.
Special Report
Where We Are Now: Educational Equity in the Pandemic Era
What impact did the pandemic have on achieving educational equity? Stories and data assessments shed some light.
Special Report
Uprooting Inequities
What does it take for schools to move from embracing the goals of equity to enacting concrete steps that actually change the schooling experience for students who are black, Hispanic, and from low-income families?
Special Report
Teaching Vulnerable Students
This special report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most vulnerable students in the nation’s schools, including youths in juvenile detention facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.
Equity & Diversity Video What Is Critical Race Theory and Why Are States Banning It? (Video)Several state legislatures have severely limited the way teachers can discuss issues of race in the classroom.
Equity & Diversity Critical Race Theory Puts Educators at Center of a Frustrating Cultural Fight Once AgainThe battle over teaching students about racism shares traits with past conflicts over evolution and sex education—but key differences, too.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Critical Race Theory Isn't a Curriculum. It's a PracticeThe furor over CRT removes a valuable tool from teachers' hands. And perhaps that’s the point.
Equity & Diversity Efforts to Root Out Racism in Schools Would Unravel Under 'Critical Race Theory' BillsThe bills proposed in more than 15 states would force districts to end initiatives that acknowledge individual and systemic acts of racism.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Resisting 'Anti-Racist' Education Is Neither Racist Nor UnreasonableThe opponents of anti-racism are reacting to ideas and educational practices at odds with the values and beliefs of most Americans.
Equity & Diversity Opinion No, It Isn’t Racist to Teach Anti-RacismHere’s what critics of anti-racist education need to understand.
Equity & Diversity Explainer What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?Here's what you need to understand about the academic concept—and how it's portrayed in political circles.
Equity & Diversity Group Seeks Federal Probes Into Schools That Pledge to Address Systemic RacismParents Defending Education, a group critical of anti-racism and "woke" education, says such district efforts may violate federal law.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Does Your District's Way of Decisionmaking Reinforce Systemic Racism?Leaders must ask if their vision of student success reflects what Black and brown families say is most important, write John B. Diamond and Jennifer Cheatham.
Equity & Diversity Why Two Superintendents of Mostly White Districts Are Actively Fighting Anti-Black RacismPredominantly white school districts across the country have started addressing systemic racism in the classroom, but not every district is doing it, and those who are brace for backlash.
Equity & Diversity What Black Men Need From Schools to Stay in the Teaching ProfessionOnly 2 percent of teachers are Black men. Three Black male educators share their views on what's behind the statistic.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Researchers Agree the Pandemic Will Worsen Testing Gaps. But How Much?Without substantial investment in their learning, the life chances of children from low-income families are threatened.
Equity & Diversity Opinion The Chauvin Verdict Is in. Now What?Justice has been served in the murder of George Floyd, but educators must recommit to the fight for racial equity, writes Tyrone C. Howard.
Equity & Diversity 4 Ways George Floyd's Murder Has Changed How We Talk About Race and EducationFloyd’s tragic death and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests evolved the discourse about structural racism in American schools.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Students: Racial Justice Demands More Than a Lawn SignOur progressive town is full of “Black Lives Matter” yard signs and Instagram posts. So why do our schools still have huge racial disparities?
