“It’s time to build a new house.”

Founded in 2017, the Black Education Research Collective (BERC) is a community of researchers, scholars, educators, and advocates focused on transforming Black education, broadly defined.

We believe education is essential to supporting the social, emotional, academic, intellectual, and spiritual development of learners of all ages in every aspect of human life and endeavor. This holds especially true for those who have been called, chosen, elected, or appointed to lead on behalf of others.

As such, we believe education at the community level requires both an unlearning of the “miseducation” many of us have experienced and received as a part of our own schooling and and sustained study in the areas of self-knowledge, culture, agency, leadership, and ethics/enduring values to empower ourselves and our communities throughout the Diaspora.

Our core values and emancipatory vision of education are grounded in the following commitments:

1. Education is a civil and human right.

2. Education is a social, cultural, and political process.

3. Education is a calling and valued profession.

4. Education is a collective responsibility.

5. Education is the practice of freedom. 

We seek to advance community education in ways that empower and strengthen our capacity to address the problem of racial inequality in schools and society, and what can be done to ensure every learner realizes their full human potential.

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