Schools & Pushout
More than Reduced Police Presence: Schools Must Commit to Implementing Restorative Justice.
by Go Fish | Jul 17, 2020 | Restorative Justice Practices
In this historic moment, cities across the nation are recognizing the damage caused by police presence in schools. From disproportionate action in response to small offenses, to police involvement in tantrums...
Making Schools Safe for Girls of Color
by Go Fish | Mar 17, 2020 | Schools & Pushout
This photograph features Dr. Monique W. Morris at the October screening of PUSHOUT, hosted by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Initiative on Gender Justice & Opportunity. Read the...
Schools Get Graded on Racial Equity
by Go Fish | Feb 18, 2020 | Schools & Pushout
Holding districts accountable and closing the racial achievement gap is the long game, but the first step is proving the problem’s scale. “People want to hear about the evidence,” says Rebecca...
Why the approval of the JCPS Females of Color STEAM Academy brought me to tears
by Go Fish | Feb 11, 2020 | Adultification Bias
In a 2017 research article from the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law, “Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls Childhood,” authors Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake and Thalia...
Protect Black Girls Before It’s Too Late
by Go Fish | Nov 25, 2019 | Adultification Bias
From a young age, adults hypersexualize and adultify black girls; they’re seen as more mature than their white counterparts and, because of this, adults fail to protect them. The lack of...
When ‘Incorrigible’ Teen Girls Were Jailed
by Go Fish | Nov 14, 2019 | Adultification Bias
Times have changed since the 1930s, and girls’ experiences in the criminal justice system have too. Yet echoes of my grandmother’s time remain. According to the report “The Sexual Abuse to...
Black students are punished more in school due to racism
by Go Fish | Nov 04, 2019 | Adultification Bias
Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality released a study, Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood, in 2017 about perceptions of innocence in black girls. The study found that...
When officers bring danger, not safety, to school campuses
by Go Fish | Sep 27, 2019 | Juvenile Justice
Teachers may misinterpret trauma-related behavior — struggles to focus in class, sleeping in class, being irritable — as being disrespectful. In addition, adults view black girls as less in need of...
An education without oppression benefits everyone. Here’s what we can do
by Go Fish | Sep 24, 2019 | Schools & Pushout
What little acknowledgment exists, is still geared towards boys’ perspectives. What about Black girls and trans students who experience racism quite differently? …A 2017 study by the Georgetown Law Center on...
by Go Fish | Aug 05, 2019 | Adultification Bias
“It’s really striking that in the context of childhood, which is the epitome of innocence, Black girls are not getting the benefits of being viewed as innocent,” Rebecca Epstein, the executive...