The racial achievement gap
Race and schools in the US and Australia today.
Equal access to quality education is critical to ensuring broader social, political and economic equality. Yet there are persistent gaps in educational access and outcomes based on socio-economic background, and race, in both the US and Australia.
Join Megan Davis, Justin Driver and Adrian Piccoli to discuss what needs to change to address these gaps. Hosted by the Grand Challenge on Inequality.
Rosalind Dixon
Rosalind Dixon is a Scientia Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney. She is also Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Pathways to Politics for Women Program NSW and UNSW Gender Equality Hub.
Richard Holden
Richard Holden in Professor of Economics at UNSW Sydney and President of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He was formerly on the faculty at MIT and the University of Chicago and earned a PhD from Harvard University. He has published numerous papers in top economics journals and is a regular columnist at The Australian Financial Review.
