3 generations of Black Philadelphia students report persistent anti-Black attitudes in schools

By Leana Cabral, Researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

John Washington, now in his 50s, attended a public elementary and middle school in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia and then went to a large magnet high school, a type of public school that has a selective admission process. As he has gotten older, he has understood that in the education system in Philadelphia, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

John…

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