In the earliest part of my teaching career, I worked in the inner city in New York. Only four miles from where I grew up in an affluent suburban town on Long Island, I was the only white person in the ...
Teachers’ unconscious racial bias in the classroom can significantly affect how different students are taught — and what they learn. Portland State University Math Education professor Eva Thanheiser ...
In his letter to the faculty, Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton states that “a faculty member may not promote or otherwise inculcate beliefs” that individuals are “inherently racist, sexist, or ...
Last week, many of us read about an(other) example of racism among law professors when Georgetown Law School terminated adjunct professor Sandra A. Sellers following ...
Implicit bias training is all the rage. Everybody is doing it: Universities, police departments, school systems, government offices. But what is it? People can define their terms any way they please.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As first period gets underway at Cambridge Street Upper School, veteran math teacher Stephen Abreu leads a small-group discussion. But the conversation isn’t about middle school ...
July 29 – To the Editor: Sometimes people write things so ridiculous that they must be intentional. That’s the case with Jeff Chidester this week. Contrary to the mythology he spreads, no one is ...
Implicit bias is a term that’s being used with increasing frequency, and you may nod your head when you hear it but not fully understand it. So, what is implicit bias, exactly? Psychologists define it ...
Implicit bias is unconscious bias. This type of bias connects automatically beyond our awareness. Where does implicit bias come from? How is it reinforced? Are there specific strategies that ...
In the Wall Street Journal, Mahzarin Banaji and Frank Dobbin recently published “Why DEI Training Doesn’t Work—and How to Fix It,” a defense of implicit-bias research in the guise of a critique of ...
CBS News contacted more than 150 police departments in big cities across the country to learn more about their implicit racial bias training as part of a year-long look into policing in America. The ...