Education & Biascope
Biascopes Press Release on Education
June 5th, 2050 marks the 5th anniversary of the introduction of Biascope. Since that time, the app has revolutionized education. With over 20 million downloads worldwide, Biascope consistently ranks in the top ten downloaded apps annually.
Before the release of the Biascope app, the education system was riddled with unconscious bias that led to both subtle and blatant forms of racism, sexism and classism.Research showed that people of colour experienced racism in the education system starting from preschool. One study showed that Black children were suspended almost four times more than White children. Psychological tests showed that teachers often had unconscious, negative beliefs about people outside their own race, gender and economic background. Young boys were often targeted for more severe forms of punishment than their female counterparts. Black boys in particular, had the harshest punishments. Other studies showed that a teacher’s expectation that a child would succeed in their classroom, often led to this result. The opposite was also true, meaning when teachers expected certain students to do badly, they did. This expectation was often tied to gender, race and class, resulting in Caucasian students of middle class homes, doing better than other groups. Although anti-bias education for students was introduced over 25 years ago, the results were not successful. While students understood the topic and successfully implemented it in classroom discussions, when examined further it was found that the results did not translate outside the classroom. Similarly, with teachers, although they received extensive anti-bias training on a regular basis, when school populations were examined in studies, a bias in favour of Caucasian students was found to exist.
For this reason, the engineers behind the Biascope app, used their knowledge of human nature to create an app that would be sensitive to all aspects of racial, gender, class and sex biases. Since its introduction there has been an 87% drop in racially motivated hate crimes in schools. Similarly there has been a significant drop in bullying incidents of LGBTQ+ youth. Differences between the success rate of students living below the poverty line compared to those who identified as being part of the middle class has dropped to 14%. The number of suspensions of Black students over other groups has dropped by 93%. After downloading and using Biascope for one year, students reported a more positive view of the opposite sex and different races. 96% of teachers reported using the bias app both in and out of school settings. The majority ranked the app as more necessary to their everyday lives than any other social media app. Biascope ranked higher than Facebook and Instagram in this year's Times Review of Social Media Apps. Biascope is happy to be releasing several new features that will be announced in next month’s Biascope Biannual Shareholders Conference.
