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Headshot of Erica Frankenberg with long brown hair and multi-colored blouse.

Making School Choice More Equitable in an Era of Rising Inequality by Erica Frankenberg

Mar 11, 2020

By Erica Frankenberg for the Equity Alliance Blog In April 2019, the Education and Labor Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing about the legacy of school integration efforts and the federal government’s role 65 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision that…
News Topics: Education PolicyCenter for Educational DisparitiesCollege of EducationSchool
Racially diverse preschool children.

Many US preschoolers remain racially segregated at school

Feb 3, 2020

Young children can benefit greatly from exposure to racial and ethnic diversity during a crucial formative period in their lives, according to a Penn State education professor. However, recent research indicates that a high degree of segregation in American preschools could be hindering students…
News Topics: College of EducationEducation PolicySchoolSegregationPreschool
Headshot of Erica Frankenberg with long brown hair and multi-colored blouse.

School district secessions shown to have deepened racial segregation

Sep 4, 2019

Since 2000, school district secessions in the South have increasingly sorted white and black students, and white and Hispanic students, into separate school systems, weakening the potential to improve school integration, according to a new study published today (Sept. 4) in AERA Open, a peer-…
News Topics: DiscriminationCollege of EducationDemographyPenn State ResearchSegregationSchool
Black student troubled.

Morgan cited in new federal report on race and school discipline

Jul 23, 2019

Lauren Camera, Education Reporter, U.S. News & World Report Black students with disabilities are disciplined more often than their white peers, pushing them into the school-to-prison pipeline at higher rates, a new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights shows – just the latest finding…
News Topics: DiscriminationCollege of EducationEducationPenn State ResearchSSRISchool
School segregation.

What school segregation looks like in the US today, in 4 charts

Jul 19, 2019

By Erica Frankenburg, for The Conversation Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a senator from California, has spoken about how she benefited from attending Berkeley’s desegregated schools. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public…
News Topics: SegregationDiscriminationEducationEducation PolicyGovernmentSocial ScienceSchool
Headshot of Erica Frankenberg with long brown hair and multi-colored blouse.

New research details increasing segregation in a transformed school population

May 13, 2019

As the nation prepares to mark the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional, the UCLA Civil Rights Project and the Penn State Center for Education and Civil Rights today (May 10) published new research detailing…
News Topics: SegregationDiscriminationCollege of EducationEducationEducation PolicySSRIPenn State ResearchSchool
Headshot of Erica Frankenberg with long brown hair and multi-colored blouse.

Conference, podcast examine school segregation 65 years after Brown decision

May 6, 2019

In the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that integrated public education was an important part of a democratic society and the "very foundation of good citizenship." Integrated schools, the court argued, would expose children to new cultures and…
News Topics: SegregationDiscriminationEducationEducation PolicyPenn State ResearchPodcastConferenceSchool
Kindergarten students learning with teacher

Keeping kids on task in school may start at home

Jan 31, 2019

The transition to kindergarten can be a challenge for children who have trouble paying attention, and can result in behavioral problems and poor academic achievement. A team led by researchers at Penn State is analyzing task persistence and how parents can influence it in early childhood. Task…
News Topics: Self-controlFamilySchool
Young boy sad and alone.

Children’s race, not disability status, may predict more frequent suspension

Jan 23, 2019

Suspension is one way schools discipline students, but the high number of and disparities in suspensions in the U.S. has sparked controversy and policy debate. New research, led by Paul L. Morgan, Harry and Marion Eberly Fellow, professor of education and demography, and director of Penn State’s…
News Topics: Racial DisparitiesCenter for Educational DisparitiesSchoolSpecial Education
Kindergarten students learning with teacher

Kindergarten predicts academic achievement across the primary grades

Nov 19, 2018

Identifying factors that predict academic difficulties during elementary school should help inform efforts to children who may be at risk. New Penn State research suggests that children’s executive functions may be a particularly important risk factor for such difficulties. Preliminary findings…
News Topics: SchoolEducationCenter for Educational Disparities
An African American mother and daughter sit on the steps of the US Supreme Court Building holding a newspaper announcing banned segregation.

Frankenberg's research featured in The Washington Post

May 11, 2018

Back to the future: A new school district secession movement is gaining steam by Valerie Strauss After the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling, declaring as unconstitutional state laws permitting separate public schools for black and white…
News Topics: SegregationSchoolCenter for Education and Civil Rights
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Study on deficits in executive functions most read

May 7, 2018

A write up on a study by Paul Morgan, CEDR director and PRI affiliate, was the most read Association for Supervison and Curriculum Developers "Smart Brief" last week. In the study, researchers found that deficits in executive functions increase the risk for repeated academic difficulties throughout…
News Topics: Center for Educational DisparitiesSchool
Teacher reading to her Kindergarten students.

Morgan's research on executive function appears in Hechinger Report

Apr 23, 2018

Executive function — a sort of air traffic controller of the brain — has been one of the hottest topics in education circles over the past 15 years. Yet experts disagree over what it is exactly, to what extent it really causes academic problems and whether anything can be done to improve one’s…
News Topics: BrainSpecial EducationSchool
People with picket signs in favor of racial equality and school desegregation.

Frankenberg answers five questions about about school secession

Apr 12, 2018

by Erica Frankenberg, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, and Kendra Taylor, PhD Student, Pennsylvania State University, for "The Conversation" Editor’s note: The word “secession” is often used in reference to states or countries that wish to break off and form their own government. But…
News Topics: SegregationSchool
A group of racially diverse children gathered around their teacher.

Research on racial disparities in disability identification cited by the Brookings Institution

Apr 9, 2018

Three Penn State researchers and their colleague replicated an earlier but provocative study that found that minority children are less likely to be identified as having disabilities as they attend U.S. schools. Their work is now being cited in a new analysis by the Brookings Institution, which…
News Topics: Racial DisparitiesSchoolSpecial Education
Headshot of Erica Frankenberg with long brown hair and multi-colored blouse.

Frankenberg reviews report about school and residential segregation

Feb 12, 2018

Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance, published by the Brookings Institution, takes up the important task of considering school and residential segregation by exploring the racial makeup of schools compared to their proximate neighborhoods. Professors Genevieve Siegel-Hawley…
News Topics: SegregationSchoolCommunity
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