Educational Disparities Are Not Sustainable

Presented by Nate Brown

Professor, Department of Mathematics

Penn State

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Educational disparities by gender and race and ethnicity are well documented and associated with other disparities such as health and wealth. In this talk, I will review some of these disparities, discuss how events of 2020 exacerbated them, and suggest things we can do to correct course.

As a child, Nate Brown was one of eight children raised in a blue-collar family. As a first-generation college graduate, education has shaped his life. As a father of three, equity in education could not be more important to him. Indeed, he is a theoretical mathematician by trade but now devotes all his energy toward social justice in the context of education.