@penn_state professor in education policy & demography. Study racial segregation, direct @psu_civilrights, & associate director of @ssripennstate.bsky.social. Enjoy folk music, good tea, baseball, & doting on my cat & kids. Welcome all gardening tips.
Erica Frankenberg
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Thrilled to see this research finally out, looking at dynamics in a majority Black suburban district.
W/ Sarah Asson, Ruth Buck, &
@csfowler.bsky.social
5,000 Penn State faculty members vote to unionize 75-25!
Big union victory in Pa!
From the abstract: "The chief argument is that education equality is historically linked to and even predicated on equal political power, specifically, equal access to the franchise and instruments of government."
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) recently announced that Jennifer Van Hook, distinguished professor of sociology and demography, will become the new director of its Data Resources Hub (DRH), effective July 1. 🔗
Thanks Bob Kim @edlawcenter.bsky.social for your incisive and evidence-aligned letter in today’s @nytimes.com on the limits of school choice to meet our nation’s education challenges.
In the just-up “Ending Birthright Citizenship,” @vanhookjenny.bsky.social & @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social determined that Latinos would account for ~80% of “unauthorized” births & Asians would experience the greatest relative impact of the Exec Order. @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
The Voting Rights Act helped to ensure when I was growing up in Alabama, my elected school board and city and county leaders were multiracial. I’m grateful for how they shaped & improved my community and my schools and believe we must work hard to preserve these gains other before us worked for.
See also this article by Prof James Anderson, using Alabama as a case study, about how expanded voting rights for Black Americans was associated with educational equity, an article I frequently assign in my classes.
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DC district court has denied the Department of Education's motion to dismiss our case challenging IES's termination of four research studies, its peer review program, and restricted data use application processing!
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Due tonight at midnight - it’s not lengthy. We hope you’ll apply!
