In the earliest part of my teaching career, I worked in the inner city in New York. Only four miles from where I grew up in an affluent suburban town on Long Island, I was the only white person in the ...

Teachers’ unconscious racial bias in the classroom can significantly affect how different students are taught — and what they learn. Portland State University Math Education professor Eva Thanheiser ...

Last week, many of us read about an(other) example of racism among law professors when Georgetown Law School terminated adjunct professor Sandra A. Sellers following ...

Implicit bias training is all the rage. Everybody is doing it: Universities, police departments, school systems, government offices. But what is it? People can define their terms any way they please.

Even highly skilled teachers can have an unknown bias. In today's Academic Minute, San Diego State University's Daniel Reinholz explores one way to help teachers correct this. Reinholz is an assistant ...

July 29 – To the Editor: Sometimes people write things so ridiculous that they must be intentional. That’s the case with Jeff Chidester this week. Contrary to the mythology he spreads, no one is ...

Implicit bias is unconscious bias. This type of bias connects automatically beyond our awareness. Where does implicit bias come from? How is it reinforced? Are there specific strategies that ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As first period gets underway at Cambridge Street Upper School, veteran math teacher Stephen Abreu leads a small-group discussion. But the conversation isn’t about middle school ...

(This the fourth post in a special six-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here and Part Three here.) The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best ways to respond to educators who ...

Implicit bias is a term that’s being used with increasing frequency, and you may nod your head when you hear it but not fully understand it. So, what is implicit bias, exactly? Psychologists define it ...

CBS News contacted more than 150 police departments in big cities across the country to learn more about their implicit racial bias training as part of a year-long look into policing in America. The ...

PASADENA, Calif. (CN) — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday took up the challenge by doctors who claim that a California requirement that they discuss implicit bias in their continued ...