Access and Equity: Schooling in a Pandemic
Over the last few months, New York City’s schools shifted the way they educate their 1.2 million students in order to protect the health and safety students, faculty and staff… 
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New York City’s Segregated School System and the Opportunity Gap
Over the last fifty years, New York City has experienced a dramatic shift in both politics and racial demographics. Yet despite its increasingly diverse population and liberal policies, New York…
What Ethnic Studies Can Offer to NYC Public School Students
Did you know that one of the largest mass lynchings in United States history was of 17 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles? Did you know about the Mendez v. Westminster…
A Bipartisan Goal: Reforming Mass Incarceration
Addressing the alarming rates of mass incarceration in the United States is an issue of national importance. In recent years, finding a way to lower the incarceration rate is a…
Equalizing the Equalizer: Education Policy in an Age of Inequality
Image credit: Ted S. Warren/AP Photo Even before Horace Mann, the influential 19th century American educator, referred to the United States’ education system as “the great equalizer,” Americans have been fond…
Addressing Segregation in American Schools through Fair Housing
Image: African-American students on whose behalf the Brown v. Board of Education case was taken to the Supreme Court (credit: Life) In a landmark decision 60 years ago, the U.S. Supreme…
The New Year’s Promise for Change
A new year has arrived, and with it a renewed commitment for change from President Obama to improve the lives of millions of Americans. The President’s State of the Union…
What’s Driving the Student Debt Bubble?
At more than one trillion dollars, student loans have grown to exceed total credit card debt. Debt has become a standard part of the college experience. Students take it on…
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