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Former dean questions costs of ‘no excuses’ charter schools on students of color
January 29, 2016“No excuses” charter schools have become a prominent feature of modern school reform. What exactly are they? This is how Joan Goodman, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the...
Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT)
January 28, 2016BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – The W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched its next step in pursuit of racial equity for the nation, an unprecedented Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) enterprise that will help communities embrace racial healing...
Closing the Racial Gap in Small Business Lending
January 19, 2016Even if you instantly eliminated all racism from mainstream financial institutions, it would do nothing to erase existing wealth inequality. The median net worth of white households in 2013 was $142,000, more than 13 times the median net worth of...
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Racial Identity, and Its Hostilities, Return to American Politics
January 5, 2016Why do working-class Americans vote as they do? The question has long bedeviled analysts on the left, troubled that people who would largely benefit from a more robust government seem so often to vote for right-leaning politicians eager to cut...
House Passes Bill That Would Allow Auto Dealers to Charge People of Color More
January 5, 2016House Democrats and Republicans reached across the aisle in a move that could eliminate a consumer protection that prevents car dealers from charging Black and Latino customers more for their vehicles. It seems Congress doesn’t care if auto...
Psychological Research Promotes Equity and Social Justice
January 4, 2016The first-ever APA Public Interest Leadership Conference offered advice for translating science into social change. In some parts of New Orleans, one of the most inequitable cities in the nation, life expectancy is just 55 — lower than in many...
The new show about race from the creator of ‘The Wire’ should make you very uncomfortable
December 28, 2015The scene in the HBO miniseries "Show Me a Hero," shows several hundred public housing residents gather on folding chairs in a Yonkers gymnasium hoping for tickets out of the city's neglected high-rise projects. On offer are 70 new townhomes on the...
Under New Oregon Law, All Eligible Voters Are Registered Unless They Opt Out
December 26, 2015Americans are required to register if they want to vote; as of this week, Oregonians will have to register not to. In front of a packed and cheering audience Monday, Gov. Kate Brown signed a first-in-the-nation bill to automatically register...
What would a more equitable D.C. look like?
December 24, 2015In D.C.’s poorest wards — 7 and 8, where residents are overwhelmingly black — growth in businesses is lagging behind other parts of the city, the number of high school dropouts is high and incomes are either falling or stagnant....