Public Scholarship as Creating and Studying Excellent and Equitable Schools for a Diverse Democracy

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Scholars from University of California campuses and practitioners report on five educational field stations (college-preparatory high schools for low-income students of color) developed through university-district partnerships.  Each has the goal of using public scholarship to improve the preparation of underrepresented students for success in college and to illuminate the conditions for improved preparation in high schools.  This interactive session blends brief site-specific presentations, cross-site comparisons, and small group discussion to explore the value and challenge of research-practice partnerships in schools. It highlights how site-based public scholarship and leveraged networks (district, university, and statewide) combine to develop schools that advance both educational equity and excellence. This works provides evidence that contrasts with the prevailing norm of educating the increasing proportion of low-income children and children of color in poorer quality schools with limited opportunities.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Frank C. Worrell, University of California - Berkeley

Participants

• Hugh Mehan, University of California - San Diego

• Mica Pollock, University of California - San Diego

• David Weber, The Preuss School UCSD

• Rhona S. Weinstein, University of California - Berkeley

• Gail Kaufman, University of California - Berkeley

• Tatiana Lim-Breitbart, Aspire Richmond California College Preparatory Academy

• Karen Hunter Quartz, University of California - Los Angeles

• Jody Z. Priselac, University of California - Los Angeles

• Leyda Waleska Garcia, UCLA Community School

• Harold G. Levine, University of California - Davis

Discussant

• Jeannie Oakes, University of California - Los Angeles