Imagining and Demanding Education Justice in the Time of Coronavirus
Imagining and Demanding Education Justice in the Time of Coronavirus
IRRPP and the Social Justice Initiative held a conversation with writers, organizers, educators, and academics about the key challenges and opportunities to advance education justice in the current moment in Chicago. The panel discussed the ways in which the Coronavirus pandemic is shaping our education system and what we can do to transform education to better serve the needs of students, teachers, parents, and communities as we prepare for the near and long term. Panelists were Elizabeth Todd-Breland (Associate Professor of history at UIC and member of the Chicago Board of Education), Eve L. Ewing (education scholar, writer, and Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration), Monique Redeaux-Smith (Union Professional Issues Director for the Illinois Federation of Teachers and former Chicago Public School teacher), David Stovall (Professor of Black Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice at UIC and former teacher at Chicago’s Social Justice High School), Cristina Pacione-Zayas (directs the policy and leadership initiatives at Erikson Institute, a child development academic institution), and Maurice Swinney (Chief Equity Officer for Chicago Public Schools and former principal of Chicago’s Tilden Community Career Academy).