• Equity Alliance blog:

Challenging Rumors, Myths, & Half-Truths in Educational Discourse by Sarah L. Alvarado Diaz & David Hernández-Saca

• Equity Alliance blog:

The purported failure of America's schools, and ways to make them better by Dr. David C. Berliner

• Equity Alliance blog:

TMMI: Dilemmas of Knowledge and Learning in the Age of Too Much Mis-Information by Dr. Beth Harry

We are proud to welcome our Spring 2017 visiting scholar, Myriam Hummel, researcher & PhD student from the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Education for Special Needs.

A special education teacher by training, Ms. Hummel has taught students with and without special education needs. She has also implemented numerous technical assistance projects in the education sector on behalf of various multilateral donors as a consultant. She has conducted several short-term missions in teacher training and school development in Asia, Africa and Central America. Her main research interests lie in the field of inclusive education in so-called developing countries with a focus on the interrelation of international, national and regional levels in the discourses and practices of inclusive education. 

New guide availiable by Teaching Tolerance:​ 

Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff

The following people contributed to the success of our blog during 2016. We appreciate their contribution and keen insight. THANK YOU 2016 Blog Reviewers! 

• Arshad Ali
• Alfredo Artiles
• Helen Aydarova
• Evelyn Baca
• Audrey Beardsley
• Mel Bertrand
• Becky Beucher
• Saskias Casanova
• Sarah Diaz
• Taucia Gonzalez
• David Hernandez-Saca
• Iesha Jackson
• Zeynep Kilic
• Jessica Libel Holloway
• Stephanie McBride-Shriner
• Sarah Salinas
• Adai Tefera

• Equity Alliance blog:

Moving from Pressure and Blame to Systemic Change for Educational Equity by Dr. Kara Finnigan and Dr. Alan Daly

• Equity Alliance blog:

"Where did you graduate from high school?" Health Insurance as Education Reform by Dr. William F. Tate

• Equity Alliance blog:

Instability of Legal Status Continues to Hinder Higher Education Access Despite the Success of DACA by Dr. William Perez

Interested in getting a teaching degree in Early Childhood Special Education?

Applications for the Bachelor of Arts degree for Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education  at Arizona State University, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College--are due starting July 1, 2016

• Equity Alliance Blog:

The Unbearable-ness of White Supremacy & Institutional Racism: Student-Led Protests on College and University Campuses by Dr. Keon M. McGuire 

• HAPPY 2016! We wish you a peaceful and productive 2016!

• Equity Alliance Blog: What are some of the funding equity implications of NCLB reauthorization bills? by Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos, Ph.D. 

• Learning Theme: Equity Issues in Funding the Next ESEA: Every Child Achieves Act

• Artiles, A. J. (2015, October). Interdisciplinary notes on the intersections of ability & language differences: Complicating traditional paradigms.2015 Jane Blumenfeld Distinguished Lecture. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM.
• Artiles, A. J. (2015, October). Equity dilemmas in the XXI century: Policy implications of the racialization of disability. Coordinated Committee Meeting, American Educational Research Association. Washington, D.C.
• Artiles, A. J. (2015, March). Culture in disability in the global era: Interdisciplinary notes for new research programs. 2015 Ridley Lecture. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA.
• Artiles, A. J., Mo, R., & Caballeros, M. Z. (2015, November). Public rights, private rites: Understanding the paradoxes & tensions of inclusive education in Guatemala. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Denver, CO.

• Kilinc, S., Gonzalez, T., & Alvarado Diaz, S. (2016, April). Response to Intersecting identities (RTIi): A critical review of resaerch (Non)Responders. Poster paper to be presented at the annual Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) conference, St. Louis, Missouri.

• Kahn, L.G., Hernandez-Saca, D.I., & Cannon, M.A. (2016, April). A look inside: A systematic review of disability intersectional research. Paper to be presented at American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C. 
• Anderson, K., & Hernandez-Saca, D.I. (2016, April). Emotion discourse as mediator of adolescent peer-group classroom discussions. Paper to be presented at the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C.

• Read our New Blog: Teacher Evaluation and Disparities in Opportunities for Learning by Etta Hollins, PhD

• Learning Theme: Educational Equity in Teacher Evaluation Debates

• Read our New Blog: The "truthy" lies of our educational problems by Sharon L. Nicholas, Ph.D.

• Learning Theme: Where is Equity in High Stakes Testing?

• Read Kimberlé Crenshaw's Op-Ed: Why Interesectionality Can't Wait (The Washington Post) 

• Learning Theme: Restrictive Language Policies: Historical Legacies and Future Opportunities

• American Public Health Association Presents: Meeting Archive: Racism: The Silent Partner in High School Dropout and Health Disparities Webinar

• The National Coalition on School Diversity Conference 2015: 21st Century School Integration: Building the Movement for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

• Check out our latest blog: "Aqui solo se habla en Ingles": The impact of Restrictive Language Policies in Students' Educational Trajectories by Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

• Welcome Back! We hope you have a happy and productive 2015-2016 semester! 

• Learning Theme: Educational Equity in the Age of Common Core Standards 

• New Blog: Using Bilingualism as a Resource in the Era of the Common Core by Nelson Flores 

• Our May Learning Theme is: Promises and Challenges of Integrated Support Systems

• Teachers Striving with Urban Youth to Challenge and Nurture the Intellect Within by Prof. Steven T. Athanases

• A Promising Model for Improving Educational Outcomes by Dr. Kristin Moore

• Our April Learning Theme is: Urban School Teaching in the Eye of a Storm

• Who Gives a Grit? Opting-Out of Educational Meritocracy, One Word at a Time by Amelia Marcetti Topper

• Why the "Opt-Out Movement for High Stakes Testing is Bad for Students in Urban Public Schools by Prof. Stuart Rhoden

• Interested in Printed Copies of our Featured Learning Carousel Practictioner Briefs? Topics include Culture, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Bullying, Gender Equity and more.

• Our March Learning Theme is: Reframing the Color of Discipline

• Reframing the Color of Discipline: Professor Pedro Noguera's Video Commentary

• Beyond the Color of Discipline: Possibilities for Culturally Responsive School Discipline by Aydin Bal

• Check Out the Disability, Culture, and Equity Book Series Latest Book (Teachers College Press): Closing the School to Discipline Gap, edited by Daniel J. Losen

• Our February Learning Theme is: Student Voice Research and Education Reform

• Youth Participatory Action and Student Voice Research: The Transformative Potential of Youth Particitpartory Action Research by Melanie Bertrand Equity Alliance Blog

• Student Voice Research and Education Reform: Video Commentary with Professor Ernest D. Morrell

1) Artiles, A.J. (2015, April). Mobilization of knowledge and boundary crossing in a bilingual teacher education program. Discussant for a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

2) Cavendish, W.M., Artiles, A.J., & Harry, B. (2015, April). State reporting of overrepresentation: Does policy legitimize the racialization of disability? Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

3) MacSwan, J. & Artiles, A.J. (2015, April). International Multilingual Research Journal. Meet journal editors event at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

4) Artiles, A.J. (2015, April). The White House Initiatives on Educational Excellence for Diverse Groups. Panel to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

1) Kozleski, E.B. & Artiles, A.J. (2015, April). Calcifying Categories: Measurement in Search of Understanding. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

2) Kozleski, E.B. (2015, April). Learning together: Building networks for transformation. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

1) Gonzalez, T., & Okhremtchouk, I. (2015, April). Meeting the needs of ELLs: Arizona Latino/a teachers’ self-reported pre-service trajectories and in-service experiences. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

2) Gonzalez, T. (2015, April). Latina/o language minority students with learning disabilities: How intersections of difference mediate in- and out-of-school literacy practices. Round table paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

3) Navigating Spatial and Symbolic Borderlands: Mobilization of Language Resources and New Literacies (2015, April). Session chair at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

1) Moreno Sandoval, C. D., Mojica Lagunas, R., Montelongo, L. & Díaz, M. (2015, April). Ancestral Knowledge Systems: A conceptual framework for decolonizing research in social science. In Indigenous epistemologies in the academy: Methodological insights for shifting paradigms in research methods and institutional policies. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

2) Moreno Sandoval, C.D. (2015, April). Ancestral Computing for social justice: Mobilizing collective memory, computer science education and student inquiry for health. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association: Chicago, IL.

3) Principal Investigator: Moreno Sandoval, C.D. (2015-January-June). Arizona Commission on the Arts to Organizations and Schools- Revitalizing Ancestral Knowledge Systems: Learning Nahuatl through Dance and Song.

Hernandez-Saca, D.I. & Cannon, M.A. (2015, April). Community's Ethos, Peoples’ of Color Core-Identity: Critical Narrative Reflections about Dis/ability and other Intersections. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

• Our January Learning Theme is: Alternative Views of Learning: Broadening Contexts, Adding Dimensions

• Check Out our New Equity Alliance Blog: Intellectual Respect: Envisioning Alternative Educational Possibilities By Shirin Vossoughi

• Our December Learning Theme is: English Language Learners with Special Needs: In Honor of Janette Klingner

• December's First Equity Alliance Blog: An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter by Rae Paris

• Check Out our Advancing the Conversations Series Video Commentary with Professor Sharon Vaughn on Honoring Janette Klingner

• December's Second Equity Alliance Blog: Cultivating Equity in Linguistically Diverse Settings: the Promise of Response to Intervention by Nonie Lesaux (In honor of Janette Klingner)

• The Most-Read Article during December 2014 for the Learning Disability Quarterly Journal was our very own: Alfredo J. Artiles, Kathleen King Thorius, Aydin Bal, Rebecca Neal, Federico Waitoller,and David Hernandez-Saca (2011). Beyond Culture as Group Traits: Future Learning Disabilities Ontology, Epistemology, and Inquiry on Research Knowledge Use. Learning Disability Quarterly, 34,167-179! Congratulations!

• Our November Learning Theme is: Presumed Incompetence: Women of Color in the Academy

• Check Out our Advancing the Conversations Series Video Commentary with Professor Gutierrez y Muhs on Presumed Incompetence

• Check Out our Equity Alliance Blog: Presuming Incompetence: Decolonizing Epistemologies of Deficit Thinking by Rebeca Burciaga

1) 2014 Mentoring Award. American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Division G, Social Contexts of Education

2) 2014 Graduate Education Outstanding Doctoral Mentor. Arizona State University.

3) 2014 Faculty Google Award for Diversity and Inclusion. Arizona State University.

1) Cavendish, W., Artiles, A. J., & Harry, B. (in press). Tracking inequality: Does policy legitimize the racialization of disability? Multiple Voices.

2) Trent, S. C., Driver, M. K., Rodriguez, D., Oh, K., Stewart, S., Kea, C., & Artiles, A. J. (in press). Beyond Brown: Empirical research on diverse learners with or at-risk for specific learning disabilities from 1994 – 2012. Multiple Voices.

3) Artiles, A. J. (2014). Beyond responsiveness to identity badges: Future research on culture in disability and implications for RTI. Educational Review.

1) Kozleski, E.B., Artiles, A. J., McCray, E. D., & Lacy, L. (2014). Equity challenges in the accountability age: Demographic representation and distribution in the teacher workforce. In P. Sindelar, E. McCray, M. Brownell, & B. Lignugaris-Kraft (Eds.), Handbook of research on special education teacher preparation (pp. 113-126). New York: Routledge.

2) Kozleski, E. B., Artiles, A. J., & Skrtic, T. (2014). How do we provide high quality instruction and support in high need and culturally diverse inclusive schools? In J. McLeskey, N. L. Waldron, F. Spooner, & B. Algozzine (Eds.), Handbook of Research and Practice for Effective Inclusive Schools (pp. 118-135). New York: Routledge.

3) Kozleski, E. B., Artiles, A. J., & Waitoller, F. (2014). Translating inclusive education: Equity concerns. In L. Florian (Eds). The Handbook of Special Education (pp.231-249). New York: Sage Publications.

4) Kozleski, E. B., & Artiles, A. J. (2014). Beyond psychological views of student learning in systemic reform agendas. In E. Kozleski, & K. King-Thorius (Eds.), Ability, equity, and culture: Sustaining inclusive urban education reform (pp. 63-79). New York: Teachers College Press.

1) Tefera, A., King Thorius, K., & Artiles, A. J. (2014). Teacher learning for diversity: Implications for the racialization of disabilities. In R. Milner & K. Lomotey (Eds.), Handbook of urban education (pp. 256-270). New York: Routledge.

2) Fischman, G. E. & Tefera, A.A. (2014). If the research is not used, does it exist? Teachers College Record Commentary.

3) Tefera, A. A., & Fischman, G. E. (2014, November). Higher education: Linking educational scholarship with policy and practice through knowledge mobilization. Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Washington, D.C.

4) Tefera, A.A. & Heredia-Griego. (2014, August). Closing the achievement gap in K-12 education. Invited presentation for GradNation Community Summit: Cultivating a Land of Opportunity. Volcano Vista High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

5) Fischman, G.E. & Tefera, A.A. (2014, September). A modest proposal for research use: Building opportunities for dialogue, solutions and generating trust between researchers and practitioners. Invited presentation for Excellence in Education Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

1) Moreno Sandoval, C.D. & Blalock, N. (2014, December). Ancestral Computing across disciplines: A culturally sustaining public education. American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C.

2) Moreno Sandoval, C.D. (2014, November). Innovation in Curriculum Design, Invited presentation for Occidental College. Los Angeles, California.

3) Moreno Sandoval, C.D. (2014, November). We are the earth: Ancestral Computing for sustainability. World Education Research Association, University of Edinburg, United Kingdom.

4) Moreno Sandoval, C.D. & Blalock, N. (2014, November). Ancestral Computing for sustainability: Building solidarity between indigenous groups. International Indigenous Development Research Conference. University of Auckland, New Zealand.

• October's Learning Theme: Understanding New Intersections: Disability, Language, Immigration Status

• October Equity Blog: Teaching and learning at the matrix of language, immigration and disability junctures by Adai Tefera, Taucia Gonzalez, Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval, & Sarah Alvarado Díaz

• September's Learning Theme: Re(imaging) a Civil Rights Agenda in Education Policy

• Read and comment on our September Blog: The American Educational Research Association’s Educational Change Special Interest Group (SIG). An interview with Professor Angela Valenzuela, originally published in the SIG’s “Lead the Change Series"

• Welcome to the 2014-2015 Academic Year from your Friends and Colleagues at the Equity Alliance!

• Welcome our newest addition to our team, Sarah L. Alvarado Diaz, Research Assistant.

• Read and comment on Professor Richard Milner's blog: Why is it Still so Difficult for Educators to Talk about Race?

• Read and comment on Professor Glenn Adams' blog: Beyond Prejudice: The (Cultural) Psychology of Racism in Education.

• Professor Glenn Adams on the Psychology of Racism in Education: A Critical Race Psychology Perspective.

• May's Learning Theme: School Choice

• Read and comment on Professor Mercedes Schnieder's blog: The Misnomer of “School Choice"

• Read and comment on Professor Erica Frankenberg's blog: School Choice and Equity

• Listen to Professor Janelle Scott on The School Choice Movement: Historical, Contemporary and Critical Perspectives.

• April's Learning Theme: Debunking Post-Racialism in Education

• New Blog: Debunking Post-Racialism in Education by Professor George Lipsitz

• New Blog: “APAHM” and the Inclusion of Asian Americans in Educational Equity Discourse by Professor Tracy Lachica Buenavista

1) Bal, A., Kozleski, E., King-Thorius, K., Artiles, A. J., Schrader, E., Rodriguez, E., Kim, H., & Pelton, S. (April, 2014). Culturally responsive behavioral support: Implementation of Learning Lab intervention for systemic expansion. Paper will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA.

2) Bal, A., Betters-Bubon, J., & Fish, R. E. (April, 2014). A longitudinal analysis of disproportionality in emotional/behavioral disorders and school disciplinary actions. Paper will be presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Philadelphia, PA.

3) Klingner, J., Ochoa, S. H., & Bal, A. (2014, April). Disproportionate representation: What, why, how, when? Program Chair Featured session will be conducted at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Philadelphia, PA.

1) Gonzalez, T. (2014, April). Literacy practices across contexts: The case of Latina/o language minorities with learning disabilities. Symposium paper will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Philadelphia, PA.

2) Gonzalez, T. (2014, April). Ethnographic, mixed methods and community-based participatory research: Equity and vulnerable populations. Session Chair at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Philadelphia, PA.

• March's Learning theme: Educational Equity in the Digital Age of Technophilia.

• Upcoming New Blog: We are the Earth: Ancestral Computing for Sustainability in Computer Science Education by Professor Cueponcaxochitl Dianna Moreno Sandoval

• March's Video Commentary will be with Professor Thomas M. Philip

• The Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College's edXchange initiative invites you to the first Saturday Scholars event with Dr. David C. Berliner, Dr. Gene V Glass, and their associate authors on “50 Myths and Lies that Threaten America's Public Schools.” Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 from 10am-11:30am in the Education Lecture Hall.

• New Blog: Pile of Old Books vs. Inspiring Citizens as Critical Consumers of Knowledge for the Great Debates by Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig

• New Advancing the Conversation Series Video: Mobilizing Educational Research for Equity with Professor Gustavo Fischman

• New Blog: Hanging Out at ASU Preparatory Academies: What One University Researcher is Learning from Conducting Real-Time Research in Schools by Professor Josephine Peyton Marsh

• New Blog Coming Soon: Poverty, Education, and the Equity Literacy of Educators By Paul C. Gorski

• New Blog: Shedding Light on "Best Practices" Through an Indigenous Lens by Darold Joseph

• New Blog: Lesson on Equity in Science Education from Walking Urban Forest Preserves by Ananda Marin

• New Advancing the Conversation Series Video: Making the Invisible, Visible: Reviving and renewing Indigenous education and language through community and self-determination with Professor Teresa McCarty

• New Equity Work that Matters Spotlight: Education for Parents of Indian Children with Special Needs (EPICS)

• New Blog: Mapping for Justice; How One Community Transformed GIS into a tool for educational change by Veronica Velez

• New Equity Work that Matters Spotlight: InterCity Struggle, East LA

• New Blog: Mapping (In)Opportunity in Educational Research by Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

• New Advancing the Conversation Series Video: Professor Michael A. Rebell on School Funding

• October's Learning theme: School Structural Inequalities

• New Blog: The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Where Did it Come From? How Do We Stop It? by Mei-Ling Malone

• New Equity Work that Matters Spotlight: The Youth Justice Coalition

• New Blog: School Suspension and Educational Opportunity For All: Are the Two Compatible? by Catherine Voulgarides

• New Advancing the Conversation Series Video: Professor Daniel Losen, J.D. on Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Parts 1 & 2)

• September's Learning theme: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline

• Meet our New Post-Doctoral Fellow Cueponcaxochitl Dianna Moreno Sandoval!

• Welcome Back! Please visit our homepage for the latest publications, videos and other activities that we here at the Equity Alliance have in store for you in the Fall 2013 Semester!

• New Blog: Recent Flores Decision is Not an Endorsement of Arizona’s ELL Policies and Programs by Wayne Wright

• New Advancing the Conversation Series Video: Professor Patricia Gandara on Language Policy

• New Blog: In Defense of Diversity: Affirmative Action in the Time of Post-Racial Politics by María C. Ledesma

• New Advancing the Conversation Series Video: Professor Gary Orfield on Affirmative Action

• New Blog: Why Stories-as-Evidence Makes Sense for Educational Research Concerned with Equity by Kate Anderson

• New Advancing the Conversation Series Video: Professor Tyrone Howard on Black Male Student Success

• New Equity Work that Matters Spotlight: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) Phoenix

• New Blog: Making the Invisible Visible: Addressing the Needs of Teachers of Color by Rita Kohli

• New Blog: Rethinking Parental Involvement by Lucía Stavig

• New Advancing the Conversation Series Video: Professor Dorothy Espelage on School Bullying and Safety

• New Equity Work that Matters Spotlight: Unlimited Potential

• March's Learning theme: Immigration Reform and Education

• New Blog: Re-imagining Latina/o Immigration and Education by Rosa Jiménez

• New Blog: In Pursuit of Our Inalienable Rights: Reflections on the Presidential Inauguration by Adai Tefera

• New Advancing the Conversation Series Video: Gabriela Uro, MPA, on the Common Core State Standards and English Language Learners!

• New Equity Work that Matters Spotlight: Partnership for Community Action

• February's Learning theme: Common Core State Standards and English Language Learners

• New Blog: 100% Proficiency: The Most Important Accomplishment of NCLB by Liz King

• New Blog: Visions of Violence: Making Sense of the Senseless by Kim Anderson

• Meet our Post-Doctoral Fellow Adai Tefera!