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Vice-Presidential Session: St. Louis at the Crossroads of Race, Empire, and Place in Urban Education Reform in the United States

Fri, April 14, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), SwissĂ´tel Chicago, Floor: Event Centre, 1st Floor, Zurich E

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This VP session situates the St. Louis Region as an important center in the United States for exploring and understanding major theoretical, reform/policy, and practice-related issues in terms of empire building, race, identity, social class, and educational inequality and opportunity today. With its emphasis on interrogating place-based examinations, this VP session highlights the lessons that can be gleaned from a place-specific analysis of educational reforms and policies in the U.S. The various authors collectively address an understudied region within the broader context of race and urban schooling. A major goal is to engage in conversations around the meaning of and consequences of specific places for understanding social and educational policies and practices in specific regions of the United States.

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