As seen in our previous entry, the normalized dominance of ‘standard English’ is quickly beginning to become a significant detriment to both the quality and outcome of education, whether creating a disparity in access or posing ethical problems or various other ever-growing issues. However, steps to actually achieve fair and improved education seem, at first, much less defined, so much that the matter of achievability has become a particular argument for critics of improved linguistic equity....

Perhaps one of the most dangerous forms in which discrimination manifests is in an unconscious manner not considered discrimination at all. In education particularly, one of the most alienating - and yet commonplace forms of inaccessibility is an ever-commonly underlooked factor that has all the same grown to become a major disparity - the effective classroom requirement of “standard English.” From an analytical standpoint, children develop linguistic abilities most rapidly during their...

For many, typically conservative-leaning groups, more of a bogeyman than ever before has been the apparent growth of “DEI narratives” in creative mediums such as literature. As seen by the dispute over and subsequent passing of Supreme Court case Mahmoud V. Taylor, covered in one of our last posts, such a conflict has been ongoing for a long time, whether in the name of supposed parents’ rights, as declared by groups such as Moms For Liberty, or targeting the ever-nebulous banner of “woke...