Via bell hooks, Bettina Love (2019) describes “homeplace” as “a space where Black folx truly matter to each other, where souls are nurtured, comforted, andfed” (p. 63). Public schools should offer all students “homeplaces,” but unfortunately schools can often be the opposite—places of alienation,dehumanization, and harm that has disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian […]

Since the advent of polling, political scientists have found that Americans don’t know much about the details of political issues or even the names of many leading politicians. Education is one distinguishing factor that separates the politically sophisticated from the unsophisticated, but, since education levels have increased over the last half-century, why hasn’t Americans’ knowledge […]