The Myth and Danger of Resilience: How Reckoning With Systemic Oppression Has Forced Us to Reconsider Resilience as a Construct

Abstract

that address, she directed educators to move away from talks of achievement gaps, which were dominating discourse in education and political conversations about education. She noted that the term achievement gap focused on short-term solutions and personal responsibility rather than social responsibility. In her talk, Dr. Ladson-Billings focused on race, noting that the original blatant educational equities were due to race, along with class and gender. She asserted that what persists are inequities, particularly around race. In her delineation of how educational inequity came to be, Ladson-Billings articulated that we cannot just measure students of color against their white counterparts without addressing why there is a gap in test scores and educational attainment in the first place. That, in and of itself, is a superficial analysis of the problem. This problem