Race-Conscious Education Policies: Collaborative Strategies for Just Schooling

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Political polarization about the role of race in crafting educational policies is once again heightened in an era of protracted debates about school choice, gifted and talented or specialized high schools, affirmative action, and desegregation. This proposed symposium will bring together researchers who study several aspects of race conscious policy in education. Researchers will discuss their work with civil rights organizations, professional associations, teachers’ unions, and philanthropies to ensure that the work of realizing a racially just society is mutually informative across and within research and organizational sectors. This interactive, multiracial, and multimodal panel will encourage and maximize discussion and debate on current and past efforts to expand race conscious policies while avoiding the mistakes of the past.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Janelle T. Scott, University of California - Berkeley

• Elizabeth H. DeBray, University of Georgia

Papers

• Hack the Gates: A Research-Practice Partnership to Advance Equity and Transform College Admissions - OiYan A. Poon, Spencer Foundation

• Integrating K–12: The Case of New York City - Matt Gonzales, New York University

• Legal Interventions on Segregation in Education - Cara McClellan, NAACP - Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

• How Desegregation's Past Matters Today - Ansley T. Erickson, Teachers College, Columbia University

• The Changing Contemporary Role of the Federal Government in Civil Rights Policy - Erica Frankenberg, The Pennsylvania State University; Genevieve Parker Siegel-Hawley, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Civil Rights Policy and the Role of the Courts - Christopher Edley, University of California - Berkeley

Discussant

• Kathryn A. McDermott, University of Massachusetts - Amherst