-- Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, who once taught at SCU, is one of the leading voices in the United States on national education policy. She has argued that the term "racial achievement gap" unfairly constructs students as "defective and lacking" and "admonishes them that they need to catch up." In turn, she has argued that the term "education debt" moves us to a discourse that "holds us all accountable" for improving the education in our nation's schools.