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Equity

4 episodes on this topic, in order of publication.

  • 015

    S2 · E4 · Apr 20, 2026

    Who Gets to Teach It? Representation and the Long Shadow of Brown v. Board

    Integration happened to the students — it did not happen to the teaching profession. Revisits the Brown v. Board–era displacement of Black educators rarely included in the standard story, and examines what decades of research on ethnic matching reveal about student outcomes.

  • 012

    S2 · E1 · Feb 21, 2026

    Knowledge, Power, and the U.S. Demographic Pivot

    The classroom has changed — has education? For the first time in U.S. history, children under 18 are the majority non-white. Season 2 opens with the question: who decides what counts as knowledge?

  • 004

    S1 · E4 · Jan 16, 2026

    From a Cultural Context: Rethinking STEM

    Challenges the common assumption that STEM is neutral. If 'math is objective' and 'data speaks for itself,' what gets hidden is the cultural design of many STEM classrooms — speed, linearity, and whose way of knowing counts.

  • 003

    S1 · E3 · Jan 16, 2026

    The Foundation — Whose Knowledge Counts? Culture, Power, and Learning

    A foundational question most schools rarely name: what counts as knowledge, and who gets to decide? Moves beyond the myth that curriculum and assessment are neutral to examine how knowledge is shaped by culture and power.

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