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08.30.20

Student Debt: An Overlooked Barrier to Increasing Teacher Diversity

Student Debt: An Overlooked Barrier to Increasing Teacher Diversity - Center for American Progress
Student Debt: An Overlooked Barrier to Increasing Teacher Diversity - Center for American Progress

Black and Latinx students’ disparate experiences with student loan debt compared with their white counterparts may affect their choice to enter or stay in the…

Center for American Progress Center for American Progress

08.30.20

Disaggregating Data By Race Allows for More Accurate Research

Disaggregating data by race allows for more accurate research
Disaggregating data by race allows for more accurate research

The term ‘women of colour’ was introduced as a symbol of political solidarity, but its evolution to a biological term encompassing all non-white women has…

Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour

08.30.20

COVID-19 Crisis Offers Chance to Challenge the Status Quo, Including the Persistent Lack of Teacher Diversity

COVID-19 Crisis Offers Chance to Challenge the Status Quo, Including the Persistent Lack of Teacher Diversity
COVID-19 Crisis Offers Chance to Challenge the Status Quo, Including the Persistent Lack of Teacher Diversity

Updated, Aug. 26 Education leaders across the country are experiencing a summer like no other as they plan for what the school experience will be…

www.the74million.org www.the74million.org

08.30.20

U.S. Schools Struggle to Hire and Retain Teachers

U.S. schools struggle to hire and retain teachers: The second report in ‘The Perfect Storm in the Teacher Labor Market’ series
U.S. schools struggle to hire and retain teachers: The second report in ‘The Perfect Storm in the Teacher Labor Market’ series

This report shows that a high share of public school teachers are leaving their posts and that schools are having a harder time filling the…

Economic Policy Institute Economic Policy Institute

08.19.20

Study reveals minority cities continue to be hit the hardest amid COVID-19

Study reveals minority cities continue to be hit the hardest amid COVID-19
Study reveals minority cities continue to be hit the hardest amid COVID-19

Dr. Harry Williams, CEO of Thurgood Marshall College Fund spoke with PIX11 about a recent study which reveals how Black and Latino communities across urban…

WPIX WPIX

08.18.20

Fragile Communities: Study Highlights Police Mistreatment, Healthcare in Urban Cities

Fragile Communities: Study Highlights Police Mistreatment, Healthcare in Urban Cities
Fragile Communities: Study Highlights Police Mistreatment, Healthcare in Urban Cities

Dr. Harry Williams of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund details findings in a new report about fragile communities across the U.S. that spotlight concerns on…

NBC New York NBC New York

08.18.20

Community Conversations: Opportunity in America

Community Conversations: Opportunity in America
Community Conversations: Opportunity in America

The state of opportunity in America study surveyed 260 residents from so-called fragile communities in North Texas. They were asked about the biggest barriers to…

NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

08.17.20

Don’t Say Nothing

Don't Say Nothing
Don't Say Nothing

Silence speaks volumes. Our students are listening.

Learning for Justice Learning for Justice

08.17.20

Racial Divide in Views on Police Growing in America

UAE & Israel, Electric Brain, Megadisaster Readiness
UAE & Israel, Electric Brain, Megadisaster Readiness

Aaron David Miller of Carnegie Endowment on United Arab Emirates and Israel. Laura Meyerson of Univ of Rhode Island on the mysteriously mailed seeds. Walter…

BYU Radio BYU Radio

Guest: Howard Henderson, Director of the Center for Justice Research, Texas Southern University

www.byuradio.org www.byuradio.org

08.17.20

Survey: Fragile Community Residents Say It’s ‘Difficult’ To Live On Their Current Income

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