Education

Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected - Crenshaw.
Against the backdrop of the surveillance, punishment, and criminalization of youth of color in the United States, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected seeks to increase awareness of the gendered consequences of disciplinary and push-out policies for girls of color, and, in particular, Black girls.

EdBuild
Ten of the twelve million students enrolled in racially concentrated nonwhite districts reside in states where the funding policies bias white districts. A $23billion funding gap exists between majority-white and majority-POC school districts.

White Math Teachers Treat Students Differently in Predominantly Black Schools - Battey
White math teachers in predominantly black middle schools are more likely to respond negatively to students' behavioral or academic issues - and this may have long-term negative consequences for student performance, according to a new study that highlights the need to recruit more black teachers.

The Power of Teacher Expectations - Gershenson, Papageorge
Could differences in teachers’ expectations of white students and black students help to explain gaps in key outcomes such as college enrollment and completion?

Uneven Playing Field? Assessing the Teacher Quality Gap between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students - Goldhaber, Lavery, Theobald
Policymakers aiming to close the well-documented achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students have increasingly turned their attention to issues of teacher quality.

Students of Color Remain Underrepresented in College Prep Classes - California School Board Association
Studies suggest that students who take college-level courses — whether AP, dual-enrollment or International Baccalaureate programs — in high school are more likely to graduate, attend college and earn a degree. Black and Latinx students continue to be underrepresented in college credit-bearing classes — even when they attend schools that offer an array of AP course options.

Discretion and Disproportionality : Explaining the Underrepresentation of High-Achieving Students of Color in Gifted Programs - Grissom, Redding Students of color are underrepresented in gifted programs relative to White students, but the reasons for this underrepresentation are poorly understood. We document that even among students with high standardized test scores, Black students are less likely to be assigned to gifted services in both math and reading, a pattern that persists when controlling for other background factors, such as health, and SES.