Imagine a “rocket scientist”, and then take a moment to see if the picture in your head corresponds to a stereotype? What if every time someone said ‘rocket scientist’ your brain had to sift through a number of possible images that would fit with that description? If it was being exhaustive, your brain would pull out each […]
Stereotype
Using our Brain to Beat our Biases (Part 1)
Only 16% of African-American students in California met or exceeded the math standards tested in 2015 by the new Common Core assessment test. This is in stark contrast to 69% of Asians and 49% of whites and corresponds to a well-documented and long-standing racially demarcated achievement gap. As disturbing as these results are, because the achievement gap is […]