1419 - Educational Justice

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Educational researchers predicted that the 21st century would no longer be concerned with racial and ethnic inequalities in education and instead be supplanted by social class inequalities. However, the reality in the second decade of the 21st century is that race and ethnicity still matters. Because educational disadvantage due to race and class remain intertwined for many children, schools and the larger society cannot move beyond the conjoined nature of these inequalities. Affluence and poverty do cut across racial and ethnic lines, but the United States is still a society where race matters. The disadvantages experienced by minority and immigrant children today are unlikely to disappear even in the next thirty years. In a globalizing world where the magnitude and quality of educational opportunity and attainment differentiates peoples, many of the issues associated with these disadvantages are likely to be even more salient in the future.

As the gaps widen between those who have access to educational opportunities and resources and those who do not, researchers interested in educational justice address the factors contributing to these discrepancies and offer a vision of how to create the types of educational systems and learning opportunities deserved by all members of a society. The three panelists in this session present research that addresses educational inequities for particular groups in the U.S. and contribute to the search for solutions through policy, advocacy and legal action.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Session Organizer

• Pamela Anne Quiroz, University of Houston

Presider

• R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy, New York University

Individual Presentations

• Lives Still in Limbo: (Un)DACAmented and Navigating Uncertain Futures - Roberto G. Gonzales, Harvard University

• The Illusion of Inclusion: Inseparable Race, Ethnicity and Class in 21st Century - Ruth E. Zambrana, University of Maryland

• From Child-Saving to Citizen-Making: Protection and Punishment in an Unequal City - Carla Shedd, The Graduate Center, CUNY