Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

How schools and parents can help anxious students.

Alum pivots quickly to help Afghan refugees fleeing to Qatar continue their learning.

Teachers and students benefit when people come together.

New York City initiative cofounded by alum finishes first year trying to do just this.

Irvin Scott says you need to investigate and go after inequality.

Good morning songs aren’t just fun – they can teach about others

David Sortino’s new book profiles his work with at-risk teen girls.

Necessary steps to ensure the success of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in your school or district

HGSE students combine their special education expertise with entrepreneurship to invent new interventions to increase collaboration in the field.

Lisa Cenca, Ed.M.'21, recipient of the Phyllis Strimling Award, is a leader in designing enriching educational opportunities for girls.

By All Means Convening keynote highlights the ways schools and communities can work together to push forward significant changes.

An innovative community for educators of color finds ways to provide support remotely

A new initiative helps Ed School faculty think through their own assumptions and expectations.

In his research, doctoral candidate Edward Kim examines the rarely studied phenomenon of private tutoring and how it can contribute to issues of inequality in education.

How colleges can seize the moment to create pathways for a more affordable and equitable post-secondary education

A new policy brief considers three areas to watch in the shift to recovery

How schools, parents, and school leaders can work to confront racism in our society and our schools, and how our own commitments help to empower communities and young people

Ph.D. student Jeraul Mackey's research examines how organizational culture around entry-level hiring in the nonprofit sector can expand and limit opportunity

Mentoring Latinas in New York City schools.

Boston-based nonprofit uses sports — now online — to address stress and mental health issues for young people.

Always vital to the mission at Harvard Graduate School of Education, initiatives promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are now taking center stage

The ways in which women face bias while working in education — in all areas of the sector — and how to push back against it.

How teachers can tackle the difficult work of countering racism in education.

Bringing the power of community to the 2021 Alumni of Color Conference.

How educators can push back against hidden curriculum and the inequalities they may reinforce in the classroom

Five principles to guide educators as they broach difficult topics in their classrooms — with students of all ages

The role that racial and ethnic identity play with respect to equity and opportunity in education

Broadening the understanding of equity in the classroom to include citizenship and nationality

How Black educators worked together, often employing covert actions, to lead valuable learning for students in the Jim Crow South.

Designing schools and classrooms to benefit all learners

Creating loving spaces in which students of all gender and sexual identities can flourish

A new audio project called Sound Practice by Michael Lipset, Ed.M.'16, is designed to help people doing equity work get centered — and off of screens

Work by HGSE’s COACHE project reveals wide gaps in how faculty of different racial and ethnic backgrounds perceive progress in diversity and inclusion on college campuses

HGSE's Ethnic Studies and Education course is a whole community, as its culminating symposium showed

How educators can authentically honor and engage with Indigenous heritage and perspectives — all year long

Five policy levers for short- and long-term progress on access and equity in education

Civic education expert Meira Levinson on how educators can confront polarization and create space for open conversations about the election and beyond

Equipping educators with restorative justice techniques to upend discrimination and stereotype

Students and alumni come together — this year, virtually — to produce a vital series of events promoting the success and wellbeing of Asian and Asian-American students.

Early and accurate communication, with clear connection to resources, will help vulnerable students — and all students — navigate disruption

As the federal stance on affirmative action changes, a look at what the policy has accomplished, and why it’s still relevant today.

Discussing race in classes where white students outnumber students of color? Strategize, acknowledge, and check in

Three ways theater can build community and create a platform for social justice

In divisive times, a look at how one group pushes back on prejudice, starting early

Bridging the divide by giving young people an entry point into the painful realities of race in America

For teachers and principals, vetted resources to help you prepare for unsettling incidents

An interview with Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean James Ryan about equity, empathy, and citizenship — and the role schools play