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I prepare aspiring teachers to educate kids of color – here's how I help them root out their own biases

  • Written by Lasana D. Kazembe, Assistant Professor, IUPUI
I prepare aspiring teachers to educate kids of color – here's how I help them root out their own biasesThe vast majority of K-12 teachers are white. SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

I’m a professor who has spent the last 10 years preparing new teachers to enter the workforce. I also study how race, culture and power influence education and childhood development at a time when more than half of the roughly 50 million children who attend U.S....

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