Season 3 of The Cultural Context of Knowledge takes up ethnic matching: the research that asks what happens to students, especially Black, Latino, and Indigenous students, when the teacher in front of them shares aspects of their cultural background.
Twelve episodes. One through-line. Forty years of evidence on how matched and unmatched classrooms produce different outcomes, why the teaching workforce is shaped the way it is, what districts have tried, what worked, and what the gifted and talented identification gap looks like when you trace it back to who is teaching.
In this trailer:
• What ethnic matching means in the research, and what it does not mean
• Why the 2009 findings on Black students and Black teachers expanded, and the caveats that came with that expansion
• The four arcs of the season: foundation, structure, contested terrain, and what comes next
• What Donna Ford and I are working on for the gifted and talented episode
• What I am asking of you before Episode 1
Chapters:
00:00 What forty years of research has shaped
00:45 Where this season sits
01:20 What this season is
02:00 What this season is not
02:30 What I am asking of you
Listen next: Season 2 Episode 10, "Will Education Pivot With It? Designing for the World That Already Exists." The finale that set up this season.
The Cultural Context of Knowledge is hosted by Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks, professor and author of Ethnic Matching: Academic Success of Students of Color.
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