Education

My resolution is to remember why I am here and why I do what I do.

The Milliken decision recognized “de facto” segregation—segregation that occurs as a result of circumstances, not law.

Despite years of government desegregation efforts and the proven benefits of integrated schools, our recently published research shows that U.S. school segregation is higher than it has been in decades.

Protesters in cities and towns across Brazil took to the streets to condemn an education ministry proposal to reduce funding for Brazilian public universities by 30% during the remainder of 2019.

Latino Rebels Radio: June 6, 2019

Earlier this year, Natalie Ramos, a graduating senior in Vallejo, California, protested on social media when she was told she would have to share the valedictorian honor with nine other students.

The digital project’s website allows for viewers to navigate through the diverse lives of migrants and their families whom students closely followed to capture their experiences.

“We stand together to name Black Latina women as central to the popular and formal scholarship on race within Latinidad.”

The Mexa Institute recommended that policymakers in both countries (the U.S. and Mexico) consider this demographic group and make them a priority.

Gabriela Soto’s attitude allegedly fostered and condoned acts of animosity toward undocumented families.

Thirteen tenured faculty decided on Friday to withdraw from the University’s ER&M program, citing a lack of resources.

While power dynamics are (often) constructed along lines of race, they do not preclude other power dynamics predicated upon different identities and hierarchies of difference.

No parent should have to worry about their children’s education being under-resourced because they want to be part of a diverse community.

If the American ideal of a color-blind meritocracy is ever to truly exist in our college admissions, it’s clear we need to level the playing field long before the college admissions process starts.

It’s 2019. Why are we still having to explain this?

Working with communities to improve schooling —and thereby democracy— is a central premise of the growing community schools movement.

Scenes like this are playing out across Los Angeles this week as L.A.’s public-school teachers go on a historic strike.

He says that when he was a student 15 years ago, classroom sizes were much smaller.

I understand we need to heal, that we need to recover from institutional exclusion, but how does a community heal when we lack resources that bring us together as a united coalition?

Latino students are entering college at unprecedented numbers, yet they are also leaving school at higher rates.