Disrupting Punitive Practices and Policies: Rac(e)ing Back to Teaching, Teacher Preparation, and Brown H. Richard Milner IV, Vanderbilt University
On October 25, H. Richard Milner IV delivered the 15th Annual Brown Lecture, “Disrupting Punitive Practices and Policies: Rac(e)ing Back to Teaching, Teacher Preparation, and Brown,” to a packed house of more than 900 at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The talk was followed by an open discussion forum and was joined by more than 450 online viewers from around the world. View the Entire Lecture — Webcast Download the Slides (PDF) Read the October 2018 AERA Highlights recap
Re-envisioning Equity Research: Disability Identification Disparities as a Case in Point Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State University
On October 19, Alfredo J. Artiles delivered the 14th Annual Brown Lecture, “Re-envisioning Equity Research: Disability Identification Disparities as a Case in Point,” to a packed house of more than 900 at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The talk was followed by an open discussion forum and was joined by more than 450 online viewers from around the world. View the Entire Lecture — Webcast Download the Slides (PDF) Read the October 2017 AERA Highlights recap and view photos from the Lecture
Public Education and the Social Contract: Restoring the Promise In An Age of Diversity and Division Marta Tienda, Princeton University
Marta Tienda, a leading scholar on immigration, population diversification, and poverty and the roles they play in access to education, delivered the 13th annual AERA Brown Lecture in Education Research on October 20 to a packed house of more than 600 attendees at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., and to more than 350 online viewers from around the world.
Tienda’s lecture, “Public Education and the Social Contract: Restoring the Promise in an Age of Diversity and Division,” asked whether it is possible to rewrite the social contract so that equal access to quality education is a fundamental right—a statutory guarantee—that is both uniform across states and federally enforceable.
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So That Any Child May Succeed—Indigenous Pathways Toward Justice and Promise of Brown Teresa L. McCarty, University of California—Los Angeles
Teresa L. McCarty, a world-renowned expert on Indigenous education issues, delivered the 12th annual AERA Brown Lecture in Education Research on October 22 to a packed house of 500 attendees at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., and to more than 300 online viewers from around the world.
McCarty’s lecture, “So That Any Child May Succeed —Indigenous Pathways Toward Justice and the Promise of Brown,” was the first Brown Lecture to focus on Indigenous education issues. View the Entire Lecture — Webcast Read the full text — Educational Researcher, June/July 2018 Download the Slides (PDF) 2015 Brown Lecture Photos Read the October 2015 AERA Highlights recap
A Long Shadow: The American Pursuit of Political Justice and Education Equality James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Before a record audience of over 700 on-site attendees at the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington, D.C., and more than 500 online viewers from around the world, James D. Anderson delivered the eleventh annual AERA BrownLecture in Education Research.
Anderson’s lecture, “A Long Shadow: The American Pursuit of Political Justice and Education Equality,” explored the historic and inseparable relationship between the right and freedom to vote and the pursuit of education equality. Anderson is Edward William and Jane Marr Gutsgell Professor of Education and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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A New Civil Rights Agenda for American Education: Creating Opportunity in a Stratified Multiracial Nation Gary Orfield, UCLA On Thursday, October 24, 2013, an audience of nearly 700 viewers in person and over 430 online watched as Professor Gary Orfield (University of California, Los Angeles) presented A New Civil Rights Agenda for American Education: Creating Opportunity in a Stratified Multiracial Nation. The Brown Lecture is now in its tenth year, inaugurated in 2004 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Orfield’s lecture took heated aim at the state of civil rights in the U.S., with an emphasis on outdated approaches to the changing dynamics of segregation and the lack of awareness of racial inequality.
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Lessons Learned and Opportunities Ignored Since Brown v. Board of Education: Youth Development and the Myth of a Colorblind Society Margaret Beale Spencer Margaret Beale Spencer, Board of Overseers Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, explores skin color bias in the United States. Drawing upon a wealth of research, Spencer speaks of color bias as a continuing social issue that deserves careful scrutiny as a health hazard. To maintain the myth of a colorblind society, she maintains, appears counterproductive to the point of being wasteful if it averts the use of strategies needed by youth to cope with racial stereotypes. View the Entire Lecture — Webcast Read the Full Text — Educational Researcher, June 2008 2007 Brown Lecture News Release