SSRI Co-fund, Maithreyi Gopalan (PI) and PRI Faculty Associate, Erica Frankenberg (Co-PI) were recently awarded a grant by the Student Experience Research Network.
Project Title: Centering Civil Rights Protections to Support Equitable Student Experiences: An Agenda-setting and Research Prioritization Proposal to Advance Equity-focused Student Experiences in the United States ($199,726).
Abstract: While scholars and practitioners have made important calls to center civil rights protections within the federal education policy agenda, a unifying research agenda, which is rigorous, policy-relevant, and can guide the field about how civil rights protections shape student experiences, is lacking. The project team will develop an agenda to inform research, policy, and practice, which centers civil rights policies and enforcement, and how they shape equitable student experiences, through three interrelated aims: conference for interdisciplinary agenda setting; harmonization and dissemination of shared data from the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR); and analysis of historic civil rights data.