Step One to Decolonizing: Reverse the gaze

  In her 2006 Presidential address to the American Educational Research Association, Gloria     Ladson-Billings called upon educational researchers to shift their lenses from the achievement gap to the achievement debt. Through this one-word change, Ladson-Billings calls upon educational research to widen and deepen the ways in which educational disparities are framed. Ladson-Billings traces the path…