Dan E. Sweat Lecture Series - 2009
Fifth Annual Dan E. Sweat Lecture
“Metro Migration, Racial Segregation and School Boundaries: Education Policy in Changing Suburban and Urban America”
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and The Fiscal Research Center will host the Fifth Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Lecture on September 24, 2009. The guest speaker for the lecture will be Dr. Amy Stuart Wells, Professor of Sociology & Education and Director of the Center for Understanding Race and Education (CURE) at Teachers College, Columbia University. The seminar by Dr. Wells will be held in the Andrew Young School's seminar room (7th Floor, AYS Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW) at 3:00pm.
Amy Stuart Wells is the principal investigator of the Study of Urban-Suburban School Change, which examines the role of public education in the demographic shifts occurring across and within urban and suburban boundaries in four metro areas. Her research and writing has focused broadly on issues of race and education and more specifically on educational policies such as school desegregation, school choice, charter schools, and tracking and how they shape and constrain opportunities for students of color.
She is the author and editor of numerous other books and articles, including co-editor with Janice Petrovich of Bringing Equity Back: Research for a New Era in Educational Policy Making (2005, Teachers College Press); editor of Where Charter School Policy Fails: The Problems of Accountability and Equity (2002, Teachers College Press); author of "The 'Consequences' of School Desegregation Take Two: The Mismatch Between the Research and the Rationale," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly (2001); co-author with Robert L. Crain of Stepping over the Color Line: African American Students in White Suburban Schools (1997, Yale University Press ); co-editor with A.H. Halsey, Hugh Lauder, and Phillip Brown of Education: Culture, Economy and Society (1997, Oxford University Press); and co-author with Irene Serna of "The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools," Harvard Educational Review (Spring, 1996).
Dr. Wells is the recipient of several honors and awards, including a 2007-2008 Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; a 2001-02 Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation's Scholars Program; the 2000 Julius & Rosa Sachs Lecturer, Teachers College-Columbia University; and the 2000 AERA Early Career Award for Programmatic Research. In 1999-2000 she was a Russell Sage Visiting Scholar. In 1995-96 she was a National Academy of Education-Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral fellow.
Dr. Amy Stuart Wells earned a Ph.D. in Sociology and Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Master degree in Journalism from Boston University’s College of Communications and a Bachelor’s degree in English from Southern Methodist University.
The lecture abstract can be found here
