by lindaoppenheim | Sep 11, 2018 | Article, schools
“Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women.” Claire Cain Miller reports on several studies about the impact of teacher gender and race on student achievement. While...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 22, 2018 | Article, schools
In his article in the Atlantic, William Brennan describes the efforts of speech pathologist Julie Washington to have schools implement code-switching between the dialect of African American English and standard English in teaching reading and in closing the...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 6, 2017 | Article
Erik Gleibermann’s article in The Atlantic summarizes his research on the achievement gap in schools. “I wanted to learn what factors might help explain . . . . why racial inequality in schools is so prevalent in these socially progressive towns despite...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 22, 2016 | Article
Melinda Anderson writes, “A recent study from Northwestern University . . . suggest[s] that the stress of racial discrimination may partly explain the persistent gaps in academic performance between some nonwhite students, mainly black and Latino youth, and...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 29, 2015 | Events
The first in the Princeton University Inequality Science Series is a panel on The Social Psychology of Inequality: Wise Ideas and Practices to Close Achievement Gaps, on Thursday, October 1, 2015, 4:30 p.m. in A32 Peretsman-Scully Hall.
