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August 14, 2020
T. Elon Dancy II Named Associate Dean for Equity and Justice
T. Elon Dancy, II has been named the new Associate Dean for Equity and Justice in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. He will oversee the school-wide strategy for centering equity, justice, and antiracism across the entire Pitt School of Education.
February 5, 2020
Cultural, Academic Partnership Explores Latinx Experience in Block Chronicles
Originally published on Arizona State University.edu.
Juan Carrillo and Jason Méndez came from opposite sides of the country, taught at rival colleges, cheered for clashing NBA teams and even listened to different hip-hop.
They were the epitome of East Coast and West Coast.
September 5, 2019
Environmental Social Justice Summer Program Connects Math Education to Real-World
While their friends were enjoying summer days at the pool, a small group of local middle school students were testing samples of the pool water—and other water sources from the environment, like tap water and bottled water—for bacteria and lead.
The cohort of 12 students who attend Pittsburgh Public Schools University Prep Middle School and/or reside in the Hill District participated in an environmental social justice math project-based unit that explored water quality in Pittsburgh.
August 7, 2019
Pitt Center for Urban Education to House Preeminent Journal Educational Researcher
The Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education has been selected as the new home institution of the influential research education journal Educational Researcher.
The Center for Urban Education will house the journal from 2019 - 2022. It is customary for the assignments to rotate every three years between the top schools of education.
August 7, 2019
Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Conference Brings Together Over 500 Educators
In too many public schools across the country, the educational system functions more like a pipeline to prison than it does a bridge to opportunity.
This grim phenomenon was the focus of the 2019 Summer Educator Forum that was held in July by the Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.
September 19, 2018
Transitioning to Urban Education (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
Originally published in Diverse Issues in Higher Education
By Walter Hudson
After spending a decade at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. T. Elon Dancy II has joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh as the Helen S. Faison Chair and director of the Center for Urban Education.
July 24, 2018
CUE Associate Director on NPR's Morning Edition
Dana Thompson Dorsey, legal scholar and CUE's Associate Director of Research and Development, recently went on NPR Morning Edition to discuss how a conservative judge would affect affirmative action.
June 13, 2018
Dr. T. Elon Dancy II Named New CUE Director
T. Elon Dancy II has been selected as the third Helen S. Faison Endowed Chair and Director of the Center for Urban Education in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh.
March 19, 2018
CUE Professor's Research Suggests School Choice May Accelerate Gentrification (The Atlantic)
CUE Assistant Professor Francis A. Pearman's research on school choice and gentrification is examined in The Atlantic:
When Francis Pearman was studying at Vanderbilt, he and a fellow graduate student noticed a striking phenomenon in Nashville: White, affluent families were moving into low-income neighborhoods without sending their children to the neighborhood schools.
October 26, 2016
CUE Selected for 2016 University UPSIDE Award
The Center for Urban Education has been chosen as one of two recipients of the 2016 University Prize for Strategic, Inclusive, and Diverse Excellence (UPSIDE) Awards for its efforts to further the University’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The award recognizes programs that increase the access to and full participation of minorities, women, and other protected classes in all aspects of the University.