Anti-Black bias is an important focal point in the discussion of the root causes of educational inequality. Much of the emerging bias research focuses on how teachers interact with students of color. Yet less is known about how anti-black bias plays out at a larger scale within a community. Do rates of community bias translate into achievement disparities between Black and White students?

These questions pose the motivation behind research that Dr. Francis A. Pearman, Assistant Professor of Education in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, recently presented to the SDP network. Read the article.