April 6, 2023 – Marvin Lynn, a former elementary school teacher in Chicago Public Schools and New York City Public Schools and currently the dean of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, explained that culturally responsive instruction has a very positive impact on the learning of students of color — particularly Black students. “For districts to turn away from these ideas for political reasons is, I think, to turn away from our students,” he said. “It’s a negation of our history as a diverse country with a lot of significant challenges relating to issues of slavery and conquest and so on.”
