- Implicit bias can turn even our best intentions into unwanted outcomes.
- Teacher’s implicit biases can impact their perceptions of the quality of students’ work and the teaching strategies they choose to implement.
- Implicit biases can impact perceptions of students behavior and is a contributor to racial differences in school discipline outcomes—particularly between Black and White students.
- Institutional and historic patterns of inequity within the education system contribute to the manifestation of implicit bias in schools. A targeted approach to address the negative effects of implicit bias must also include strategies to address these systemic issues.