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December 9, 2019
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CEO’s note: The brain and implicit bias

Education and Training

Recognition is the first step in helping students By CSBA CEO & Executive Director Vernon M. Billy Our brains are fascinatingly powerful tools that have the capacity to go beyond our own imagination. The brain has an unsurpassed ability to create, interpret, suppress and disassociate […]

July 5, 2017July 5, 2017
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New study finds “adultification” bias toward African-American girls

Closing the Achievement Gap

African-American girls face school suspension twice as often as white boys and five times as often as white girls. Even though African-American girls only make up 16 percent of the entire female school population, they are given 28 percent of referrals to law enforcement and […]