How Might Instructional Technology Help Achieve a More Inclusive Education System in a Time of Crisis?

Culturally responsive education is an approach to schooling that promotes student engagement, learning, and achievement by centering their knowledge, cultural backgrounds, and everyday experiences in the classroom. Sabia and her colleagues at New America conduct research on the content taught in schools,  the barriers to teaching representatives, inclusive content, and the policy levers for scaling this type of curricula. She explains that New America’s Education Policy Program acts as a bridge between teachers, school districts, and policymakers, hoping to articulate the everyday concerns of educators who want to see changes to the education system in the United States and better communicate often dense policy language into understandable, actionable recommendations.

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