REACH Celebrates One-year Anniversary, Looks Ahead to 2021

17 December 2020

As we come to the one-year anniversary of the Refugee REACH Initiative, we are more committed than ever to collaborative research, education, and action on the collective challenge of systemic change, equity, and racial justice, on which the work of welcoming communities and quality education depends.

How can we—as educators, researchers, and policymakers—fulfill our collective responsibility to ensure that all young people have access to quality learning, the chance to develop relationships of belonging, and opportunities to build futures?

This year has wrought immense disruption for education systems and educational experiences of students, teachers, and families. Acute crises are rarely, if ever, isolated from long-term uncertainty, particularly deep-seated inequities along lines of race, class, caste, ethnicity, language, or migration status.

We have seen during the Covid-19 pandemic harmful patterns of crisis repeat themselves: crisis exacerbates inequities through systemic differences in who has access to health care, to education, and to privilege and money to make decisions that can control and cushion the effects of disruption. We welcome you to these conversations and spaces to share resources and ideas for further collaboration and engagement.

We wish you a peaceful, joyful, and restful holiday season, and look forward to continuing these global conversations with you in 2021.

Warmly,
The Refugee REACH Team