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…

Now out from Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World: my colleagues (led by Maithreyi Gopalan (still on a digital detox!)) and I used the ED Civil Rights CRDC data to visualize how racial gaps in two forms of school discipline have shifted over last 50 years. cc: Penn State College of Education Penn State PRI (@pop.psu.edu🦋) Penn State SSRI journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

You can’t be concerned about “censorship” when you support book bans. #VPDebate #VPDebate2024

AERA Division L: Awards nominations are due Nov. 15! Please check your email or contact Sarah W. Lenhoff for more information. Thanks!

SSRI associate director & Penn State College of Education professor Erica Frankenberg & former Penn State faculty member Maithreyi Gopalan (still on a digital detox!) (now of University of Oregon) have launched a civil rights in education initiative. The initiative includes a website called AdvancED Equity. More ➡️ buff.ly/4euVrYK

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 ed.gov/about/news/pre…

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.

Looking forward to participating and learning at this great event next week!

Appreciated Derek W. Black mentioning this work on racial disparities in discipline at the one year celebration of Education Rights Institute and the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Elise Boddie In conversation following her lecture, Elise Boddie is asked who and what failed Brown? Her answer: the Supreme Court.

NCES Closing out the 2024 Leadership Committee Meeting is a panel conversation featuring @LoriPattonDavis, Theodora R. Berry, Adrienne D. Dixson, and Erica Frankenberg on responses to bans on teaching, learning, and racial diversity. Moderated by Huriya Jabbar.

Take a moment today to celebrate Roberto Clemente (1934-1972), great Puerto Rican, great American and great Pennsylvanian:

So appreciated this learning experience at the AERA leadership committee meetings last week.

Thrilled to contribute to this Brown symposium in the American Journal of Law and Equality with recent PSU EdPolicyStudies grad (now at Harvard Law School) Gabriella Achampong assessing voluntary integration law & local efforts on the 70th anniversary of Brown v Board direct.mit.edu/ajle/issue/vol…

The panel offers insights that educators and school and district leaders can use to prevent and remedy race, color and national origin discrimination. 🌐 Please REPOST for your network. 🌐 🔗 Check out the panel discussion: youtu.be/loLMVYdLcjM #RacialJustice #EducationEquity

PSU EdPolicyStudies Associate Professor Kelly Rosinger is quoted in this The Guardian article about the possibility and potential ramifications of President-elect Donald Trump shutting down U.S. Department of Education. bit.ly/4fKkCpW #PennState #educationpolicy

We call B.S. on this. Instead, for an authoritative look at IES Research - its many accomplishments and key challenges - read National Academies report nationalacademies.org/our-work/the-f…

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 U.S. Department of Education. #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! theconversation.com/big-cuts-at-th…