Past Events
The goals of the Stanford GSE Public Scholarship Collaborative are to:
1. Engage in public scholarship to bridge the distance between scholarly expertise and stakeholders' understanding of educational equity issues
2. (Re)frame, clarify, and advance interdisciplinary research-based and equity-minded viewpoints to offer guidance on education policy, practice, and research issues
3. Offer GSE graduate students opportunities to develop expertise in public scholarship
Ann Jaquith, Executive Director for SCOPE, will present at an Aurora Institute session about the Aligned Partners Project.
Ann Jaquith, Executive Director for SCOPE, will present at an Aurora Institute session about the Aligned Partners Project.
By many measures, higher education is doing wonderfully well: 200 million students worldwide, 2.5 million research papers published each year, university Presidents paid over a million dollars per year, and Elsevier making record profits off journals. There are, however, troubling trends lurking: student debt totals well over a trillion dollars, student protests have become common around the world, most of the university workforce are in precarious employment, staff and faculty strikes have multiplied, and the Laureate Corporation owns universities in ten countries with 150 campuses.
Dr. Michela Musto presents on her research on gender construction and how school processes shape students' gender status beliefs.
In this SCOPE book talk, education sociologist Eve L. Ewing presents her latest book, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side. Dr. Ewing will talk about the story of Chicago's 2013 mass public school closures-- the largest wave of such closures in the nation's history.
“We wanted to take a look at schools that paid attention to time and understood that if teachers had time to learn with and from each other, it would benefit their children and it would benefit themselves as teachers.”
– Jon Snyder, Ed.D., Executive Director, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
SCOPE Researchers and the SCOPE Advisory Board will participate in a range of sessions at this year's AERA Annual Meeting, to be held in New York City.
Antero is currently exploring the learning and civic practices of tabletop gaming communities that play games like Dungeons & Dragons
Please join Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) in welcoming Dr. Deborah Meier for a special talk about her years of work in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, and advocate since the early 1960s. Immediately following the talk, Dr. Meier will be available to sign her new book, These Schools Belong to You and Me: Why We Can’t Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools.
