An Intergenerational Conversation on Equity

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session reflects on the nature of equity work, both in the present time and historically, and how issues of educational equity are deeply tied up with issues of housing, segregation, wealth inequality, healthcare, and other social systems and structures. In the education research community, scholars must reckon with how they themselves are working to create equitable systems. Thus, this conversation among these esteemed panelists will reflect on what is involved in the work of changing systems— how do systems change? What is the role of research, activism, and policy? How can we, as scholars, be a part of creating more equitable systems in education?

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Spencer Foundation

Moderator

• Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Spencer Foundation

Panelists

• Angela Glover Blackwell, Policy Link

• Fred Blackwell, San Francisco Foundation

• Edmund W. Gordon, Teachers College, Columbia University