History of U.S. Education: What’s Race Got To Do With It?

History of U.S. Education: What’s Race Got To Do With It?

This panel will examine the origins of public education in the United States as an instrument for shaping the nation’s citizenry, constructing social order, and ameliorating perceived urban ills. Panelists are asked to address the implicit racial and social hierarchies and ideological assumptions that underpinned waves of school reforms throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the present.

Moderator: David Blight

Panelists:

Hasan Kwame Jeffries (Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University)
Gloria Ladson-Billings (Former Kellner Family Distinguished Chair of Urban Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Immediate Past-President of the National Academy of Education; and Fellow of the American Educational Research Association)
Johann Neem (Professor of History, Western Washington University)
Donald Yacovone (Lifetime Associate, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University)