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Why are gender and racial equity in schools important? 

If you’ve been following us for a while, then you have followed us as we’ve expanded our content and focus to include school culture and climate. However, we still care very deeply about issues of race and gender and believe that these concerns are still part of our core mission. In fact, gender and racial inequities are closely related to school culture and climate. Below, we talk about some of the connections that we see.

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What Academic Optimism Is… And What it Is Not

This week’s blog is maybe one of our most important here at AEC. Analysis of Academic Optimism of Schools and Teachers is a cornerstone of our new services. But more than that, Academic Optimism is a powerful construct that can explain why some schools are more or less successful than others, even when controlling for socio-economic status (SES). In this blog, I’ll explain what organization-level Academic Optimism is...and what it is not.

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