It’s a phenomenon that experts call the “school-to-prison pipeline” and that actor and activist Anna Deavere Smith calls “Notes from the Field: Doing Time In School.”
As part of our “Chasing The Dream” series, we take you to a distinguished panel of educators, scientists and Smith that reveals how our social environments, educational and economic inequality and incarceration and poverty rates influence and harm our children on a biological level.
The untold story of Black Americans in pursuit of higher education in the North when Southern graduate schools were white-only.
This selection of features and shorts illuminates critical formations of schooling and learning from various global perspectives.
%%excerpt%% Black Americans today remain at the center of conversations around how to expand access to the American Dream and are looking for solutions to new challenges in education.