Advancing New Directions in School Gentrification Research Centered on Righting, Remedy, and Repair

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Educational research has provided important insights on gentrification’s impact on public education. It has reported on the preferences and mobilization of parent gentrifiers in schools, programming, material, and curricular changes in gentrifying schools, and educational leaders’ responses to such changes as well as demographic shifts in the student population. Bringing together research across U.S. metropolitan areas, this symposium presents multidisciplinary, methodological, and contextually-informed approaches to chart future directions in the study, advocacy, and responsiveness toward school and neighborhood gentrification. Aligned with the conference theme of “Research, Remedy, and Repair,” this symposium leverages research to enhance collective and multifaceted sociopolitical and historically-informed approaches for contesting, mitigating, and refusing malleable yet enduring educational and social inequities exacerbated by gentrification.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Education and Place, Space, Time

Chairs

• Jasmine Alvarado, Brandeis University

• Alisha Butler, Wesleyan University

Papers

• Accentuating the Racialized, Contextual, and Multifaceted Dimensions of School Gentrification - Jasmine Alvarado, Brandeis University; Alisha Butler, Wesleyan University

• Walking the Line Between Saviorism and Social Activism: A Positionality Perspective on Gentrifier Parents' Navigating School Choice - Allison Roda, Molloy University; Alisha Butler, Wesleyan University; Molly V. Makris, Guttman Community College - CUNY

• “The Safest Choice”: Gentrification, Power, and Contested Policy Decisions about Pandemic School Re-openings - Sarah Bruhn, University of Pennsylvania

• The Ripples of Gentrification: How Demographic Change in City Centers Shapes Inequality in Suburban Schools - Diana Cordova-Cobo, Student Achievement Partners

• Creating Communities amid Crisis: Racial Capitalism, School Gentrification, and Resistance in Seattle - Hailey Karcher, Seattle Public Schools

Discussant

• Alexandra J. Freidus, University of Connecticut