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What Is Possible and Desirable: Conceptualizing Race and School Quality Across Local Contexts

Sat, April 10, 2:30 to 4:00pm EDT (2:30 to 4:00pm EDT), Division G, Division G - Section 4 Paper and Symposium Sessions

Session Type: Symposium

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These papers examine institutional, organizational, and contextual factors contributing to racialized understandings of school quality by school and community stakeholders, including parents, school leaders, district administrators, and community-based organizations. Together, the studies investigate how stakeholders make sense of, contribute to, and resist racially-inflected visions of “excellent education.” They explore how multiple publics define school quality, to whom and for what purposes, across specific social and political contexts – and the implications for access to educational opportunity. In doing so, these studies make a much-needed contribution to our theorizations of the role that race plays in shaping conceptions of school quality.

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