For generations, education policies have too often ignored how conditions outside of school can alter life chances for young people, especially students of color, before they even reach the classroom. In Our Children Can’t Wait, a new book from Teachers College Press, Dr. Joseph Bishop of UCLA and a national network of scholars challenge inequality as something inevitable, bridging issues like neighborhood conditions, public health, funding, housing, air quality, the justice system, school safety and segregation to education justice and policy.