The Ubiquitous Nature of Implicit Bias

Lisette Partelow discusses how implicit bias affects students in the classroom.

In a recent blog post on the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Flypaper blog, writer Kay Hymowitz erroneously stated that “implicit bias – assuming there is such a thing, and that we know how to measure it – has no clear real-life consequences.”

Sorry, Ms. Hymowitz, but that is simply false. Implicit bias most certainly does exist, and it has some very significant and often severe real-life consequences.

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