In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
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An 1850 act permitted the creation of separate schools for Protestants, Catholics and for any five Black families. Some white people used the act to force Black students into separate institutions.
Racial disparities in the tech sector begin well before college.
Three experts weigh in on how college students will be taking activism from the streets to online this fall.
Young Black Canadian writers like Desmond Cole and Eternity Martis look at anti-Black racism on campus.
School integration is often thought of as something that took place in the 1960s. But the first Black student to desegregate a school by court order was an Iowa girl named Susan Clark in 1868.
Decades of inadequate teaching material and resources to support Black students in Ontario means they are severely underserved by their schools.
Recent blackface scandals that involve college yearbooks have overshadowed how yearbooks also chronicled important turning points in the history of US higher education, a historian argues.
Negative statistics about black students may be prevalent, but they are often out of context, misleading or just plain wrong, a professor of counseling psychology argues.
Using the term ‘at-risk’ to describe students from challenging circumstances often creates more problems than it solves, a professor of counseling psychology argues.
T.M. Landry College Prep, facing allegations of abuse, is known for getting students from poor backgrounds into Ivy League schools. An education scholar says the school’s focus was misplaced.
Even though Maryland college football coach DJ Durkin has been fired, his 11th hour ouster will not rid college football of some of its deepest problems, argue two scholars on race and college sports.
Black students need support within an academy that marginalizes them. Other–othering – a philosophy of care that recognizes the holistic impact of racism is one solution.
As the student protest over conditions at Howard University continues, a scholar weighs in on what the fallout means for historically black colleges and universities.
New findings reveal only 1.5% of all offers from Oxford and Cambridge went to black British A-level students.
A recent Pew survey reported that young African-Americans are more likely to be both victims and perpetrators of cyberbullying. Why?
New research finds state zero tolerance laws do not improve student safety. In fact, they increase the use of suspensions and racial disparities in discipline.
Summer is not an idyllic time for all. Two researchers who are black and are parents to two black children describe why they feel the weight of the summer.
Statistics on black student graduation rates don’t reveal the complete picture: at highly selective colleges and universities, black student graduation rates range from 88 percent to 96 percent.
Two students – one black and one white – with the same math and reading achievement could have very different likelihoods of being identified as gifted.
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Researcher in Black education, policy, and community development, University of Toronto
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada
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Professor of Counseling Psychology, Howard University
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Associate Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Sheffield Hallam University
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Vice-Chancellor, Birmingham City University
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Lecturer, Maynooth University
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Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Education and Health Law Clinic, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in Education, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor, University of Michigan
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DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Old Dominion University
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Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Cambridge