Math teachers who believe women no longer face discrimination tend to be biased against girls’ ability in math. This is what we found through an experiment we conducted with over 400 elementary and middle school math teachers across the United States. Our findings were published in a peer-reviewed article that appeared in April 2023 in the International […] … learn more→

The field of higher education and research (ESR) in France is now beginning to be well analyzed from the angle of social inequalities and their evolution in general. It is noticeably less so from the standpoint of discrimination – an issue that is the subject of ambiguous institutional recognition, and a scientific evaluation that is still […] … learn more→

Universities are increasingly being challenged over their responses to racial, gender and class inequality. As a result, even those reluctant to admit that they perpetuate discrimination are at last trying to do something about it. Yet certain issues remain largely undiscussed. The wake-up call has been loudest about black and ethnic minority (BAME) school-leavers, who […] … learn more→

One thing which perhaps drives me the most nuts about the corruption in our higher education system (and to a similar extent in our corporate system) is how when the corruption is found out, the people, the actual human beings, who are responsible for the corruption get away free, while the institution pays some sort […] … learn more→

The Supreme Court recently decided that Trinity Lutheran Church should be eligible for a Missouri state grant covering the cost of recycled playground surfaces. Though the state originally rejected the church’s application on grounds of separation of church and state, the Supreme Court ruled that this rejection was, in fact, religious discrimination. The case’s impact […] … learn more→