Controlling the Scores
Standardized testing has long been framed as a neutral measure of achievement. Yet, its origins in white supremacy reveal that it was designed to privilege white, middle-class norms…
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School May Be the Only Doctor Some Black Kids Ever See
For some kids, the school nurse is there to put a bandage on a skinned knee or check for a fever. But for a majority of Black students,…
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Northwestern roiled by criminal charges against two students who made parody copies of student paper
Divisions over the war in Gaza, questions about race as it relates to how the law is enforced, and what free speech means on campus are part of…
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Black Success, White Backlash
For more than half a century, I have been studying the shifting relations between white and Black Americans. My first journal article, published in 1972, when I was…
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The Val Demings Gamble
On a hot D.C. Wednesday in the middle of July, an 11-foot statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune—carved out of marble extracted from the same Tuscan quarry that Michelangelo…
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