Equity & Diversity
Insights into how issues of equity, diversity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and religious beliefs impact schools
Webinars on Equity & Diversity
Browse and register for free professional development on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender and gender identity, and religious beliefs and schools.
Special Report
Where We Are Now: Educational Equity in the Pandemic Era
What impact did the pandemic have on achieving educational equity? Stories and data assessments shed some light.
Special Report
Uprooting Inequities
What does it take for schools to move from embracing the goals of equity to enacting concrete steps that actually change the schooling experience for students who are black, Hispanic, and from low-income families?
Special Report
Teaching Vulnerable Students
This special report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most vulnerable students in the nation’s schools, including youths in juvenile detention facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.
Equity & Diversity Educators Just Can’t Agree About Student Dress CodesEducators debate dress codes’ impact, with some seeing gains for student focus and others citing bias and inequity.
Equity & Diversity Professional Learning Guide Your Guide to Race & School CultureThis professional learning guide is packed with resources to support K-12 equity and diversity.
Equity & Diversity Another District Restores a Confederate Name to Its SchoolsThe district dropped Robert E. Lee's name from two buildings in 2020. The Lee name will be back for the 2026-27 year.
Equity & Diversity Professional Learning Guide Your Guide to Navigating Difficult ConversationsThis professional learning guide equips you with everything you need to make all your discussions clear, confident, and impactful.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Culturally Responsive Teaching Is a 'Journey of Discovery.' Here Are Tips to Guide YouHow teachers can tap into the many factors that contribute to students' cultural identity, according to educators.
Equity & Diversity Q&A Student Dress Codes Can Send the Wrong Message. How to Get Them RightRecommendations include a climate survey for students and reevaluating subjective language in dress code policies.
Equity & Diversity Opinion It’s Time for Courageous Education Leaders to Defend Equity. Here’s HowHere’s how K-12 education leaders can create enduring equitable school systems.
Equity & Diversity Trump Sues California Over Law Letting Trans Athletes Compete in K-12 SportsThe Justice Department filed the lawsuit after California on Wednesday refused to repeal its state law.
Equity & Diversity Opinion How to Keep Supporting Students in a Hostile Political EnvironmentProtecting kids outside of school may be beyond educators' means, but here are ways we can help them.
Equity & Diversity Opinion It’s Been 5 Years Since the George Floyd Protests. Where Are We Now?Promises of equality and justice languished and then under Trump, were declared void.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Let DEI Practices Die. Replace Them With Something BetterIndividual student agency enabled by strong families and schools can lead students to success, writes a researcher.
Equity & Diversity Opinion Boys Are Struggling in School. What Can Be Done?Girls outpace boys at nearly every level of academic achievement. Author Richard Reeves shares his thoughts.
Equity & Diversity Anti-DEI Policies Are Ramping Up—With Big Implications for College AccessA new study looks at how students of color could be affected by policies that ban DEI efforts.
Equity & Diversity Opinion How Education Leaders Should Respond to the Anti-DEI CrowdDecades of essential equity-based work is under threat in our schools today, warns Joshua P. Starr.
Equity & Diversity A Wave of New Legislation Aims to Ban DEI in Public SchoolsState legislators have introduced measures that would prohibit schools from maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion offices.
