October 26, 2020
Host
Richard M. Long, Learning First Alliance
Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz, Ph.D., a historian of education and social policy, researches school policy as social policy, focusing on fundamental questions around equity, race, power, and the role of institutions in creating or disrupting inequality. Her first book, Blaming Teachers: Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History, explores the history of the public school workforce and the creation and maintenance of racialized ideas, policies, and practices.