Background/purpose: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education has the potential to address inequalities and enhance teaching and learning outcomes. However, challenges such as AI biases, limited teacher literacy, and resource constraints hinder equitable implementation, especially in contexts like South Africa. This study…

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth face elevated mental health risks. However, insights from minority stress theory and prevention science suggest that this disparity may result from increased exposure to minority stressors rather than their minoritized identities and that there are protective factors that can mitigate these higher risks. At…

In this paper, we provide examples of interactions with instructors that women in physics courses find condescending or intimidating based upon data from individual interviews with women in physics courses. We also provide some examples of interactions in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses that women found validating.…

Teaching in predominantly white institutions is a terrific challenge for professors of color. In addition to being expected to fulfill professional obligations, including publishing, teaching, advising, and mentoring students, professors of color constantly have to fight against microaggression, lack of diversity, inclusion, and fairness in the…

Afterschool educators sometimes encourage program participants to write heartfelt stories that make them feel better about the work they are doing. They want to feel they are making a difference, that they are empowering young people to speak truth to power and win. In some cases, they might be. But they must respect each young person's journey…

From the vantage point of Ta Moko, this paper reads educational practices as ancestral rituals engendering antibrownness. Antibrownness is the social and analytical routine that this paper attempts to unsettle by examining the curricular practices of difference making in literacy in primary education in the US as the locus of colonial…

This lesson plan is designed to help students understand and debunk myths and stereotypes about African American/Black women and their sexual lives. This lesson plan is intended for adult learners.

Though much has been written about the benefits that Black sororities and fraternities offer its members as well as broader communities within and beyond the ivory towers, comparatively fewer studies have addressed how these organizations interact with men's constructions and embodiments of masculinities. Moreover, even fewer studies examine the…

Despite advances toward equity, mathematics education continues to be entangled with deficit discourses at every level. Here, we analyze the webs of meaning that comprise deficit discourses. We show how these discourses are supported by seemingly neutral narratives about what counts as mathematics and narratives about students from marginalized…

This article addresses television news coverage of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2010, which would have created a path to legal residency for thousands of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Considering the role that news media play in socially constructing groups of people, through an analysis of…

Many kindergarten teachers use ability groups to differentiate instruction in reading and math. Ability group placement should depend primarily on student achievement, but critics charge that placement is biased by socioeconomic status (SES), gender, and race/ethnicity. We predict group placement in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study of the…

This qualitative study examined classroom Teachers verbal abuse by reviewing a sample of the decisions of the discipline committee of the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT). Data were collected from the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CANLII) online database, which provided a record of all the OCT discipline committee decisions, with…

Contradictions between precious ideals and social realities are often handled by locating the problems of inequality in a limited setting, so that the rest of social life will not be disturbed. Racial inequality in America, starting with slavery, is concretely expressed in the troubled relations between agencies of social control, like the police,…

In order to understand the current social, cultural, and political period of ascendant racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, classism, and xenophobia -- personified in the actions and statements of the current President of the United States -- and its relationship to education, Ken McGrew suggests that the scholarship of Paulo Freire is…

Daryl G. Smith has devoted her career to studying and fostering diversity in higher education. In "Diversity's Promise for Higher Education," Smith brings together research from a wide variety of fields to propose a set of clear and realistic practices that will help colleges and universities locate diversity as a strategic imperative…