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Stories that reflect CECR's strong focus on educational equity, desegregation, civil rights, and the role of research and leadership in addressing systemic inequalities in U.S. education.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and fellow Democrats criticize President Donald Trump’s plan to shutter the Education Department on March 6, 2025

March 14, 2025

Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come [The Conversation]

Portrait of Erica Frankenberg against brick wall

March 06, 2025

Frankenberg named 2025 AERA Fellow

January 22, 2025

Erica Frankenberg named among most influential in shaping education

October 17, 2024

Research collaboration launches civil rights in education initiative

Young students at desks writing, centered on brunette girl.

January 05, 2024

70 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, public schools still deeply segregated [The Conversation]

Empty classroom desks and chairs, green chalkboard.

July 10, 2023

Social science explains why K-12 integration efforts should continue [The Hill]

February 08, 2022

Researchers examine link between residential and school segregation

Erica Palmer at podium in Nittany Lion Inn

April 22, 2021

Frankenberg recognized with 2021 Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award

American Flag with portion cut out to create Puerto Rican flag.

February 27, 2020

How To Secede From Belgium Without Really Trying [Collin McEnroe Show WNPR]

Black and white arrows in opposite directions over blue ground.

February 25, 2020

Hidden Segregation Within Schools Is Tracked in New Study [Education Week]

Black English teacher working with Black students.

February 10, 2020

‘You can’t help but to wonder’ [Hechinger Report]

Map of segregated schools in western PA, Ohio, NJ, NY, CT, and MA.

January 27, 2020

Five Of The Country’s Most Economically Segregated School District Borders Are In Western PA [WESA]

Title slide School District of South Orange and Maplewood "Equity in Integration Symposium"

January 09, 2020

Symposium Sets Tone for South Orange-Maplewood's Intentional Integration Journey

January 07, 2020

It’s One of the Most Fraught Words in Education. What Does It Mean? [Education Week]

Historical photo of young students of different races, ethnicities.

December 18, 2019

Extremely Separate And Widely Unequal [LAist]

December 03, 2019

School Planning Review could transform District [Chalkbeat]

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Peter Piazza, Ph.D., UMass-Amherst launched School Diversity Notebook in 2017 and it has since become the official blog of the Center for Education and Civil Rights and part of the National Coalition on School Diversity.

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