Penn State’s Center for Education and Civil Rights (home of this blog) recently hosted a conversation between Genevieve Siegel-Hawley & Courtney Martin about their two fantastic books: Genevieve’s “A Single Garment” & Courtney’s “Learning in Public.” It was a great conversation- sort of like friends reconnecting over a meal and some drinks (full video here).…
In a previous post, I summarized key points from the Brown@65 conference hosted by the Center for Education & Civil Rights and the Africana Research Center at Penn State. This post focuses on the riveting keynote from Nikole Hannah-Jones. As regular blog readers know, I write about her often, given her central role in the…
Last month, I noted that we were starting a new project at the Center for Education and Civil Rights – we wanted to compile a top-10 list of resources for folks who are relatively new to the issue of school segregation. For an issue that has been around for a long, long time, the topic…
The SD Notebook is back! And, better than before! Since my last post, I started a new position as a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Education and Civil Rights (CECR), which is based at Penn State University and run by Erica Frankenberg. I’m thrilled about the opportunity to learn from such a respected/accomplished school…
This is a short post to announce that the School Desegregation Notebook is now the School Diversity Notebook. Because “school diversity” is a broader term that encompasses many different aspects of what is happening (and not happening) in school policy, I felt like it was a better fit. With the new name, I’ve created this…
This is a short post to announce a bit of news that I’m excited about: the SD Notebook has recently been added as an official member of the National Coalition on School Diversity. If you aren’t familiar with it, NCSD is a group of researchers and advocates who work to expand political/social support for meaningful…
This post is my small attempt to add something to the discussion of Charlottesville and the stream of racism from Donald Trump. If you’re looking for something to do with your outrage, I hope you find something useful below. Or, if you have something not listed here (this is really only a small list), please…
Of course, there’s a lot to explore about an issue that has such a long and contentious history. My very short, preliminary list of sources and topics includes – Books like “All Deliberate Speed” (Charles Ogletree) and “Justice, Justice” (Daniel Perlstein); Reporting on: the recent desegregation order for Cleveland, MS public schools and on any…
Race has regularly been a part my research/work, but I have never focused squarely on school integration. At times, the blog may reflect growing pains in my knowledge development about school segregation and/or my exploration of personal privilege. I am an education policy researcher, which requires me to visit schools at the K-12 and higher…
This is a blog about something that is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Something that’s perceived to be an old ghost, of a distant and worse time, yet it animates our education policy discussions today in complicated unseen ways and affects students’ educational experiences in deeply negative ways. In an age supposedly dominated…
School Diversity Notebook 