Over 60 years after Brown v. Board, the education system is still struggling with segregation, the opportunity and achievement gaps, school funding discrepancies, and improving outcomes for all young people. In 2007, Dr. Claude Steele, then at Stanford University, delivered the seventh annual Jacqueline P. Danzberger Memorial Lecture on stereotype threat and why understanding it is crucial to leading students to success. Based on his and others’ research, he offered three key principles for making classrooms places where students feel a sense of belonging and have the safety and freedom to achieve. READ MORE…