Researching Race in Education: Policy, Practice and Qualitative Research

In traditional educational research, race is treated as merely a variable. In 1995, Gloria Ladson—Billings and William F. Tate, IV argued that race is under—theorized in education and called for educational researchers to pay closer attention to the relationship between race and educational inequity (Ladson—Billings and Tate, 1995). In particular, they argued, drawing on legal scholar, Derrick Bell’s notion of Racial Realism (Bell, 1995), that racialized inequities are not accidental or abe...