Race and Equity Archives - The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Black college enrollment sharply down during Covid summer of 2020

by Jill Barshay September 8, 2020September 9, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, many warned that it would increase educational gaps between the haves and the have-nots. Now the proof is starting to come in. College attendance among Black students dropped a whopping 8 percent during the summer of 2020, compared with the summer of 2019, according […]

PROOF POINTS: Survey reveals stark rich-poor divide in how U.S. children were taught remotely during the spring school closures

by Jill Barshay July 27, 2020July 27, 2020

White men have the edge in the school principal pipeline, researchers say

by Jill Barshay June 22, 2020June 18, 2020

OPINION: ‘For our many Black and Brown children, the threats to their physical safety now and into the future are eating away at their insides’

by Karen Gross June 22, 2020June 21, 2020

OPINION: ‘We commemorate Juneteenth — why not make that sentiment last all year?’

by Gene Pinkard June 18, 2020June 18, 2020

Rich schools get richer

by Jill Barshay June 8, 2020June 8, 2020

Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges

by Jill Barshay February 17, 2020March 30, 2020

Many HBCUs are teetering between surviving and thriving

by Delece Smith-Barrow October 23, 2019March 30, 2020

New studies challenge the claim that black students are sent to special ed too much

by Jill Barshay August 19, 2019March 30, 2020

Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them

by Andre Perry July 2, 2019March 30, 2020