With racism, bias, and racially-charged misinformation increasingly in the news, HEP books offer tools for teachers, school leaders, and students to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes. In the selection of data-driven titles below, you can find resources to help your schools thrive this fall.
The Big Lie About Race in America’s Schools
Edited by Royel M. Johnson and Shaun R. Harper
In The Big Lie About Race in America’s Schools, Royel M. Johnson and Shaun Harper bring together leading education scholars and educators to confront the weaponized distortions that are currently undermining both public education and racial justice.
Unconscious Bias in Schools
A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism
By Tracey A. Benson and Sarah E. Fiarman
Unconscious Bias in Schools shows how information about unconscious bias can help shift conversations among educators to a more productive, collegial approach that has the potential to disrupt the patterns of perception that perpetuate racism and institutional injustice.
How Schools Make Race
Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
By Laura C. Chávez-Moreno
In How Schools Make Race, Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students’ concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity.
Race and Culturally Responsive Inquiry in Education
Improving Research, Evaluation, and Assessment
Edited by Stafford L. Hood, Henry T. Frierson, Rodney K. Hopson and Keena N. Arbuthnot
Race and Culturally Responsive Inquiry in Education examines how assumptions about race and culture have shaped US education research and the interpretation and implementation of its results.