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Gloria J. Ladson-Billings is an American pedagogical theorist and teacher educator, and she is on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin—Madison School of Education. Ladson-Billings addresses the issues of educational incongruity in teaching African American children in the 21st Century within her book The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children. Ladson-Billings was the President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2005. During the 2005 AERA annual meeting in San Francisco, Ladson-Billings delivered her Presidential Address, "From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools," in which she outlined what she called the "Education Debt" highlighting the combination of historical, moral, socio-political, and economic factors that have disproportionately affected African-American, Latino, Asian, and other non-white students.

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