Language, Culture, and Identity
Learning by Heart: The Power of Social-Emotional Learning in Secondary Schools
Barbara Cervone
Kathleen Cushman
WKCD's five case studies document the power of social and emotional learning, and its connections to deeper learning, in five diverse American high schools.
Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole-System Reform
Leading Educational Change
Edited by Helen Janc Malone
Leading Educational Change is comprised of 25 short articles on system-wide reform and addresses issues in 15 different countries.
Project Dates:
February 2012 – March 2014
This project examines how three urban, socioeconomically and racially diverse public high schools utilize a comprehensive focus on SEL to produce high achievement and engagement.
Closing the Opportunity Gap
Prudence L. Carter
Kevin G. Welner
Prudence Carter and Kevin Welner bring together leading education experts to discuss policy and reform efforts that tackle the inequality of learning opportunities in U.S. schools.
School busing isn't getting simpler
Prudence Carter examines the complex issue of school busing, desegregation, and educational inequities in this op-ed for MSNBC.
New Book: Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools
In her new book, Prudence Carter looks to the U.S. and South Africa to examine why students of color are more successful at some schools than others.
"Prudence Carter's work is simultaneously scholarly and compassionate. It helps us see, in ... two benighted but globally important societies, how easily things break, but also how well, when structures are in place and when human agency takes flight, individuals and the groups to which they belong flourish and grow."
— Crain Soudien, Professor of Education, University of Cape Town
Prudence Carter and Kevin Welner brought together a team of experts to examine the causes of and remedies to the inequality of learning opportunities in America's schools.
This project documents how the success of some California schools in closing the achievement gap can inform state policy.
In this speech, Parent, President of the Centrale des syndicats du Québec, looks at historic and modern trends in Canadian education policy, and their impact on equity in Canadian schools.
Prudence L. Carter, Jakeya Caruthers, and Jessica Foster
In this paper, Prudence Carter et al. argue that certain educational practices in the United States and South Africa converge to thwart integrationist goals.
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