@penn_state professor in education policy. Study racial segregation & direct @psu_civilrights. Enjoy folk music, good tea, baseball, & doting on my cats & kids.
Proud to stand along civil servants, teachers, advocates, and folks who care about public education this morning to protest the Trump Administration’s dismantling of @usedgov. #EDmatters
Maithreyi Gopalan and I wrote a piece about the impact of the cuts and other changes at the US Department of Education on civil rights—and will be discussing this with others at #AEFP2025 on the last panel at 11:45. Come join us!
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🧵 Setting the record straight about IES and its contracts.
IES was founded in 2002 to “fund development and rigorous testing of new approaches for improving education outcomes for all students.”
The panel offers insights that educators and school and district leaders can use to prevent and remedy race, color and national origin discrimination.
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🔗 Check out the panel discussion: youtu.be/loLMVYdLcjM#RacialJustice#EducationEquity
Thrilled to contribute to this Brown symposium in the American Journal of Law and Equality with recent @PSU_EdPolicy grad (now at @Harvard_Law) Gabriella Achampong assessing voluntary integration law & local efforts on the 70th anniversary of Brown v Board
direct.mit.edu/ajle/issue/vo…
Closing out the 2024 Leadership Committee Meeting is a panel conversation featuring @LoriPattonDavis, Theodora R. Berry, @ADDixson1913, and @e_frankenberg on responses to bans on teaching, learning, and racial diversity. Moderated by Huriya Jabbar.
ALT Five people sit on stage in lounge chairs. Groups of people at tables sit and watch them. There is a large screen to the right of the stage.
Appreciated @DerekWBlack mentioning this work on racial disparities in discipline at the one year celebration of @UVALawERI and the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
We’re one week away! Come celebrate 60 years of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Education Rights Institute’s one year anniversary on Monday, October 21st, inside Caplin Pavilion @UVALaw. You'll hear from our keynote, @CatherineLhamon, Assist. Sec. @EDcivilrights
Attorneys play an important role in shaping the actions and responses of educational institutions in the current climate. @MunizRaquel88 and I argue that we need more research that focuses on or includes these influential institutional actors.
Today, OCR issued a request for feedback on data items included in the Civil Rights Data Collections for 2025-26 and 2027-28 school years
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SSRI associate director & @PSU_CollegeOfEd professor @e_frankenberg & former Penn State faculty member @MaithGopalan (now of @uoregon) have launched a civil rights in education initiative. The initiative includes a website called AdvancED Equity.
More ➡️ buff.ly/4euVrYK
Michael Figures sued & bankrupted the Klan group that bombed the 16th St Baptist Church, murdered Viola Luizzo & committed the last KKK lynching
Michael Figure is Shomari Figures’ father
These are a different kind of Alabama roots and values
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/04/10/u…