Stanford launched a “Youth Justice Lab” to bring antiracism to public schools. The project believes that special education, advanced placement programs, and other “meritocratic” grading policies are “insidious” forms of segregation.
Stanford University’s law school launched a project to address racism in public schools.
According to Stanford Today, the “Youth Justice Lab” — an initiative of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice — will allow students from the Graduate School of Education and Stanford Law School to “develop specific policy and research interventions that can counter the racial disparities perpetuated by school programs,” including “racially segregated” advanced placement programs, special education programs, and school discipline policies.
The Youth Justice Lab’s website elaborates by claiming that these “insidious” programs — as well as other “meritocratic” testing and grading policies — indicate that “public schools have created and perpetuated racial hierarchy, despite the promise that schools should help all children achieve the American Dream.”
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