On January 24, 2015 the URBAN Philadelphia Node, the St. Joseph’s University Education Unit, Teacher Action Group (TAG), Caucus of Working Educators (WE), and Teachers Lead Philly will host a convening on leveraging quality research in support of equitable and democratic public education in Philadelphia. Researchers and teachers concerned about the current
The Urban Affairs Association will host a pre-conference workshop on urban education policy advocacy on Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Entitled Connecting Research to Urban Education Activism, this workshop will bring together scholar activists who are conducting or want to conduct research in one of the areas listed below and related
The URBAN Philadelphia Node will officially launch at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Philadelphia! Descriptions of the sessions that the Philadelphia Node will host are offered below. Check the conference website for complete and up-to-date information on these and all other conference sessions and events. Click here
URBAN will host a general meeting as well as several events at the upcoming AERA conference in Philadelphia from April 3-7. Click here to view the full URBAN program! Read more below! Thanks to the 2013-2014 URBAN planning team for putting this meeting together. Click here to view the meeting agenda.
Philadelphia’s students have long been a major force in the battle for public education, and for the past decade and a half they have fought valiantly against the encroachment of neoliberalism, the idea that market-based logic can solve non-market problems more efficiently and effectively than governmental or public sector agencies.
The theme of the 2014 Conference of the American Educational Research Association is The Power of Education Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy. Check out the many excellent sessions, including several facilitated by URBAN’s Philadelphia Node. Read more here Image by the American Educational Research Association