For African-American students, data, alongside societal attitudes and stereotypes, often present a negative picture: a wide academic achievement gap separating them from their white peers. Higher rates of discipline and absenteeism.
As a first-generation college student, Beverly Dosono’s path to becoming an advocate for underrepresented students started at an early age.
At the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ’s , Alexandra Goodell (PhD ‘18) has watched students get so immersed in learning that everything else gets put by the wayside.
At Evergreen Elementary School in Shelton, most students grow up in high-poverty environments. Many are English language learners who are the children of immigrants from Latin America.
Just two years into Seattle’s trial effort to close the kindergarten readiness gap, there are promising signs that children of color and those from low-income households are making gains.
In the coming year, Kristin Percy Calaff will be hiring up to 20 teachers who can speak Spanish or Vietnamese to staff the growing number of dual language classrooms in Highline Public Schools.
That is, if she can find them.
As an elementary school student, Caroline Black remembers being invited to a classmate’s house, where the group decided to play school.
Noah Zeichner (MIT '04) and Diana Hess (PhD '98) are being honored by the during its annual conference this November.
As a little girl, Jazmyne Kellogg recalls that her mother would always say her favorite color was black. Every doll Kellogg played with was black and every painting in her family’s house was of a black person.