History of Education Society Annual Meeting-Panel Chair
The panel takes root in the Black Atlantic, as the diasporic routes of formal, and informal, intellectual networks in the Anglo Atlantic world. Through the subversive histories of education in Guyana, the United States and Britain, we examine the transatlantic linkages of education and resistance in Black educational movements across the time and space of the Black Atlantic.
Panel Chair-A Labor of Love: New Perspectives on the History of Black Teachers from Jim Crow through School Desegregation
This panel will focus especially on the interplay between working conditions and the professional goals of Black educators, specifically how local contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries such as white racism and Black self-determination impacted Black teachers’ education and training, pedagogy, curriculum, professional status, and how they viewed themselves and their roles in K-12 schools. We know that Black educational traditions have led to high levels of academic achievement, community development, and social transformation through public education. Black controlled educational spaces, including classrooms and schools, are sites of political development where social justice is pursued and collective flourishing takes place.Today, scholars have demonstrated that Black teachers make a measurable difference in the educational experiences and achievements of Black youth, while creating a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable learning environment for all students. Yet Black teachers’ labor remains exploited and underappreciated, a fact that is directly related to declining percentages of Black teachers in US public schools. The goal of this panel is to take a fresh look at the incredibly diverse working conditions of Black teachers across two centuries to analyze how Black educators navigated these circumstances and remained focused on the twin goals of supporting Black students and advocating for equal treatment for Black teachers, and to suggest future directions for research.
Unspeakable Challenges
Celebrating Mary McLeod Bethune's 150th birthday with Southern Association of Women's Historians.
Black Metropolis Research Consortium
This talk will focus on Mary McLeod Bethune’s foresight and exhortation to Black women to document themselves and the subsequent collections that still exist due to her exhortation which continue to inspire
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
New Book Talk Series w/ CSREA Center Director, Professor Prudence Carter
Data For Black Lives III
A New Education is Possible-Moderator, John H. Jackson
Description: Seventy years after Brown vs Board of Education, schools in America remain separate and unequal. School districts predominantly serving students of color receive $23 billion less in funding than majority-white districts. Race is among the strongest predictors of whether students can access advanced math and science courses. Issues such as school privatization, inequities in standardized testing, broadband access, the use of proctoring technologies, and the weaponization of plagiarism software create barriers for students and educators from K-12 through higher education, hindering upward mobility. The attack on race-conscious admissions occurs when AI is set to generate trillions of dollars in wealth. As AI is revolutionizing access to knowledge, now is the time to reimagine the possibilities for public education once and for all.