Narratives at the Intersection of Politics and Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 3:20 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Intersecting Education Policy and Politics (Table 12)

Abstract

This paper explores the histories influencing public schools in North Carolina (NC) through the narratives of five K–12 public school graduates. These narratives reveal persistent and systemic factors impacting NC education decades after Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and within the context of Leandro v. State of NC (1997). The study uses Critical Race Theory (CRT) to frame these experiences, highlighting the sociocultural contexts influencing systemic changes in NC public education.

Author

• Raketa Ouedraogo-Thomas, University of North Carolina - Charlotte