Black Student Activists Are Sick and Tired of Talking. They Want Action.
October 15, 2020 by Satra Taylor It’s been three years since I turned my tassel to the left and threw my graduation cap in the air in commemoration of the end of an important chapter in…
New Guide Pushes Leaders to Stop Criminalizing and Excluding Black, Latina, and Native Girls in Schools
August 20, 2020 by EdTrust With systemic changes, educational leaders at the school, district, and state levels can take real steps to eliminate deep racial and gender disparities in school discipline, according to a new…
“And they cared”: How to Create Better, Safer Learning Environments for Girls of Color
August 20, 2020 by All across the country, girls of color are excluded from school for subjective offenses like these, missing out on…
Graduation Rates Don’t Tell the Full Story: Racial Gaps in College Success Are Larger Than We Think
March 05, 2020 by Andrew Howard Nichols, Marshall Anthony Jr. “Student success” is a popular buzz phrase, but it means different things to different people. College and university administrators tend to measure student success on the basis of graduation rates.…
No State Provides Both High-Quality and High-Access State-Funded Preschool for Black and Latino 3- and 4-Year-Olds
November 06, 2019 by EdTrust Of the 26 states analyzed, 13 states enrolled fewer than one-quarter of their Latino children in state-funded preschool programs, and 10 states enrolled fewer than one-quarter of their Black children…
Trends in Enrollment and Degree Equity at Public Four-Year Colleges: 2001-2016
October 22, 2019 by J. Oliver Schak According to our recent Broken Mirrors reports and web-based State Equity Report Card, few states are doing enough to ensure that their public two- and four-year colleges enroll and graduate…
Broken Mirrors: 6 Takeaways on Black Student Representation at Public Colleges and Universities
May 29, 2019 by J. Oliver Schak It’s commencement season. As we honor the thousands of graduating students getting their diplomas, we should pause to consider those who didn’t get the opportunity to attend college, much less…
Where Are the Black Basketball Coaches?
April 10, 2019 by Wil Del Pilar, Ph.D. The NCAA has a new men’s and women’s basketball champion. Congratulations to University of Virginia and Baylor University. In the last days of the tournament, however, I was most struck…
Broken Mirrors: Black Representation at Public Colleges
March 06, 2019 by Andrew Howard Nichols, J. Oliver Schak If America’s public colleges and universities are supposed to be true democratic engines of opportunity and social mobility, their…