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It is time to regenerate our commitment to the promise of the Brown decision and remind all who doubt its importance why it still matters.” Pedro Noguera
“The cold, hard fact is that everything in education can and will be gamed by the affluent and privileged. That’s what privilege is. Utopian fantasies to dismantle it by persuasion, public shaming, and technocratic manipulation are naïve, unworkable, or illegal. You can’t eliminate or embarrass privilege; you can only limit its influence.” Robert Pondiscio
“When people think about racism, they’re thinking about bigots. But you don’t have to have a moral failing to act on an implicit bias.” Jennifer Eberhardt, author of Biased (Viking, 2019) in an “8 Questions” interview with Belinda Luscombe in Time, April 8, 2019, https://bit.ly/2uSmzwv
“Gender and racial performance gaps often emerge on high-stakes mathematics tests.” Marla Sole
“By grade 5, children are aware of racial stereotypes that associate Asians with math ability.” Marla Sole
“[W]hen a student burns two hours listening to sound clips so he can make a photo of Langston Hughes zoom into his PowerPoint slide to the sound of screeching brakes, well, he’s probably not doing much thinking about the Harlem Renaissance.” Jennifer Gonzalez
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