In the Media

Assistant Professor Michael Hines weighs in on the impact of capitalizing the word Black in K-12 textbooks.

Waiting to enter kindergarten can have benefits, particularly for children who have trouble self-regulating, says Professor Thomas Dee.

COVID-19 is demonstrating the cost of inadequate preparation for national emergencies, says Professor Emeritus David F. Labaree in an op-ed.

Professor Emerita Linda Darling-Hammond says we would do well to look carefully at what has worked—and what has not worked—around the world to reopen schools, so that we can put in place plans that can succeed.

In an op-ed, Associate Professor Subini Annamma discusses the policies and practices in schools that criminalize Black youth.

Professor Mitchell Stevens considers the pandemic's long-term impact on colleges and universities.

Stereotypes about language and stereotypes about race are constructed together, says Associate Professor Jonathan Rosa.

Many doctoral students today are tending to fall into one of two disturbing categories: academic technician or justice warrior, writes David F. Labaree.

As school districts and county offices of education make plans for safely reopening schools, it is urgent that they also recognize and make space for teachers to process and heal, writes Assistant Professor Antero Garcia.

Associate Professor Bryan A. Brown talks about the STEM summer program he founded for underrepresented students of color, which took place online this month.

Professor Mitchell Stevens talks about the uncertainties facing colleges in re-opening during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A hashtag ethnography of the Ferguson protests by Associate Professor Jonathan Rosa notes that social media participation becomes a key site from which to contest mainstream media silences and the long history of state-sanctioned violence against racialized populations.

Linda Darling-Hammond, professor emerita, presents a list of 10 policy proposals to re-open schools safely and equitably.

Treating online and in-person instruction as essentially equal puts residential universities in an awkward position, says Associate Professor Mitchell Stevens.

Professor Sean Reardon's research on achievement gaps between poorer and wealthier children is cited in this article about online schooling during COVID-19.