Listen to Professor Terri McCarty speak about Indigenous education and language revitalization.
Equity Matters: In Learning, for Life.
Equity Alliance Blog
I am a Hopi community member named Bahusompe (Spider weaving a new home) from the village of Moenkopi on the Hopi reservation. I am a part of a community that shaped much of my cultural schema through hard physical work and a spiritual connection to place. Tending to the cornfields, working with livestock, and participating in ceremonial...
When my graduate school advisor encouraged me to take a course in geographic information systems (GIS), I happily obliged.
Listen to Professor Michael A. Rebell speak about school funding from an equity perspective.
In 2008, William Tate (past president of AERA) used maps to describe the geography of opportunity in two metropolitan regions of the United States that were engaged in efforts to transform their local political economies. His maps helped visualize that urban centers consisted largely of census blocks where residents bachelor’s degree...
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It was a typical school day in my research and I was observing an in school suspension room when an African American boy, about seventeen years old, entered and immediately sat at a desk and began writing. The teacher in the room appeared to know him well and asked him what he was working on. The boy said he was writing about what he would...
Listen to Daniel Losen, J.D., speak about dismantling the School-to-Prison pipeline. There are two parts to this video. Please view part 1 and part 2.
March 29, 2013 was a disappointing day for those who care about the education of English language learners (ELLs). Judge Collins of the Federal District Court for the District of Arizona issued a new ruling in the case Flores v. Arizona—a 21-year old lawsuit originally filed in 1992. This new decision overturned (...
Listen to Professor Patricia Gandara speak about Language Policy.
Discussions around affirmative action are emotionally charged. Though not everyone is familiar with affirmative action’s complex history, everyone seems to have an opinion about its future. Proponents stress that no proxy can ever replace the consideration of race in university admissions. By contrast, opponents of affirmative...
Listen to Professor Gary Orfield speak about Affirmative Action.
Ideologies–the taken-for-granted beliefs about how things supposedly are (e.g., Woolard & Schieffelin, 1984)–often form the basis of judgments about others. Consider what counts as ability and how we measure it, or who is seen to speak “good” English and what we imagine them to look and sound like. From ways of talking to behavior in...
Listen to Professor Tyrone Howard speak about Black Male Student Success.
When I was a teacher in Oakland, California, I worked at a school that was primarily African American, but also had over ten languages spoken within the student population. At a school that diverse, it is hard to imagine that, as a South Asian American woman, I was one of the only teachers on campus who was not white or black. The...
Through personal and research experience, I know that immigrant parents want to be a part of their children’s education. For them, access to a good education is one of the main reasons immigrants stay in the U.S. Consider, then, the irony that it is sometimes the lack of access to knowledge of how the USian...
Listen to Professor Dorothy Espelage speak about School Bullying and Safety.
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, Phoenix strives to create safe, respectful, and healthy K-12 schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
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