Emergencies that disrupt the regular functioning of schools and colleges don’t occur in a power vacuum. They play out in education systems with deeply embedded patterns of inequality, determined by where students live, by family income, by race and by ethnicity, among other factors. As school districts and colleges across the country move classes into […]

Patricia Burch
Patricia Burch is a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a co-director of the USC Rossier Center on Education Policy, Equity and Governance.