
Spring 2024 Research Brown Bag
Join UF faculty and graduate students for the Spring 2024 Education Policy Research Center Research Brown Bags.
Policy Debate Forum: Should Pre-K be Part of Public Schools?
The last several decades have seen numerous pushes from policymakers and advocacy groups to expand the reach of public preschool. In this Policy Debate Forum, Dr. Michael Little (NC State) and Dr. Anna Markowitz (UCLA) will engage in a pro/con discussion of the relative merits of inclusion of public preschool in the public education system.
Fall 2020 Seminar – Gentrification, Educational Inequality, and the Future of Urban Schooling
Central city neighborhoods in the United States have long been plagued by concentrated poverty, racial segregation, and state-sanctioned disinvestment. In the last several decades, however, another important reality of residential stratification in urban America has emerged: namely, not all low-income neighborhoods stay that way. Modern trends are pointing, in part, to the reconstitution of urban space as a destination for affluent households, a repository for investment capital, and a battleground for the “right to the city” to be claimed and justified. These trends are codified in processes of gentrification that are reshaping the social, racial, economic, and institutional organization of many urban communities nationwide. However, the empirical research on how urban schooling figures into these processes is only beginning to emerge.