“…This article is an affirmation that Cognition and Instruction, as a journal and as a community, has been and will always be willing to attend to how race and power interact with cognition and instruction. The articles in this journal have shown a slow but steady increase in explicit awareness to and nuance in how race and power can be (and need to be) included in our analyses of learning (Bang & Vossoughi, 2016Ehret & Hollett, 2016Goldberg, Schwarz, & Porat, 2011Gutiérrez, Engeström, & Sannino, 2016Jurow, Teeters, Shea, & Steenis, 2016Larkin, Maloney, & Perry-Ryder, 2016McWilliams, 2016Philip, 2011Philip, Olivares-Pasillas, & Rocha, 2016Rubel, Lim, Hall-Wieckert, & Sullivan, 2016Shreiner, 2014Vakil, Royston, Nasir, & Kirshner, 2016Zavala, 2016 Our editorial team is committed to continuing this trend.…”