Essay: The negative effects of implicit bias in schools (Newsworks)
May. 10, 2017
Last week at Colgate University in central New York, reports of a black male carrying a gun — which in reality was a Colgate student carrying a glue gun for a school project — prompted school officials to put the campus on lockdown. In a message to the university, President Brian W. Casey wrote: "It is important that we understand the role that implicit racial bias had in the initial reporting of and responses to the events of last night."