Race, Inequality & Language in Education

Offering a computing concepts course helped quadruple AP computer science exam participation among female, Black, and Hispanic students, a Stanford study finds.

A team led by Stanford education Assistant Professor Guilherme Lichand found the rate of physical and learning disabilities in the country’s K-12 schools to be more than three times the official statistic.

Graduate student and game designer Kathryn Hymes joined speech pathologists, fellow designers and people with aphasia – a disorder affecting communication – to develop three games that support language recovery and social engagement.

Stanford psychologists suggest that aid programs can be more effective with messaging that conveys dignity and empowerment in culturally relevant ways and does not jeopardize donations.

In a new class, called Medieval Fantasy Literature, students examined the origins of dragons, witches and other fantastical creatures by reading a series of ancient works.

New research examined how Republicans and Democrats express themselves online in an attempt to understand how polarization of beliefs occurs on social media.

Stanford senior Alma Flores-Perez studied a group of bilingual children at a Spanish immersion preschool in Texas to understand how they distinguished between their two languages.

Stanford French Professor Dan Edelstein’s new research explores how the concept of human rights developed in Western societies.

Rare 14th-century texts historian Rowan Dorin found in Stanford’s Green Library show an enthusiastic exchange of knowledge between medieval people, going against the belief that the Middle Ages was an ignorant time.