An Hour with Odis Johnson Jr.

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Dr. Odis Johnson Jr., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins University, will visit the Annenberg Institute to discuss his research on the intersections of education, social policy, and equity. Drawing from his interdisciplinary scholarship, he will share perspectives on how evidence can inform policies and practices that expand educational opportunity, improve student well-being, and address systemic inequities. His talk will explore the role of rigorous research in advancing more equitable education systems and fostering meaningful change for students and communities.

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Odis Johnson Jr., PhD, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins University, with faculty appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Education as Executive Director of the Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, and in the Department of Sociology. He also directs the NSF Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM), and this past July began his 3-year term as co-editor of the Sociology of Education, a journal of the American Sociological Association. Dr. Johnson’s work on the interrelated topics of neighborhoods, social policy, and race have been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Joyce Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. He has recently led the Fatal Interactions with Police Study, and the Race, Gender, and Social Control in STEM Lab with support from the National Science Foundation. A transdisciplinary scholar, his work appears in the leading journals of 11 scientific disciplines and fields. In 2021, he joined the standing expert advisory panels of the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development HCV Mobility Demonstration, the U.S. Dept. of Education NCES High School and Beyond: 2022, and provided expert testimony to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine about the future of methods and measurement. A noted voice and advocate for justice and equity, Dr. Johnson’s work and ideas about social change were mentioned in more than 400 broadcast and news media outlets in 2022.

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Unpacking the Promise and Limitations of Behavioral Health Interventions on Interactions with Law Enforcement

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The Annenberg Institute will host Kelly Hallberg for a discussion of her research on education policy, program evaluation, and the use of rigorous evidence to understand what works in education. Drawing on her expertise in experimental and quasi-experimental research methods, she will explore how research can inform policies and interventions designed to expand opportunity and improve outcomes for students and communities.

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Research Insights with Damon Clark

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The Annenberg Institute will host Damon Clark for a discussion of his research on the economics of education, education policy, and student outcomes. Drawing on his work examining how policies and institutions shape educational experiences, he will share insights on the factors that influence student opportunity and success. The talk will explore how evidence from education research can inform policy decisions and contribute to a deeper understanding of how education systems serve students.

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The Effects of a Statewide Ban on School Suspensions

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The Annenberg Institute will host a discussion on the effects of statewide bans on school suspensions, exploring how changes to school discipline policies influence student experiences and educational outcomes. The talk will examine the role of policy in shaping disciplinary practices and consider broader questions about equity, student support, and creating more inclusive learning environments.

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Research Insights with Jonathan Collins

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The Annenberg Institute will host Jonathan Collins for a discussion of his research on education policy, civic engagement, and the relationship between communities and education systems. Drawing on his work as a political scientist and education policy scholar, he will explore how public participation, institutions, and policy decisions influence educational opportunities and outcomes. The talk will highlight the role of research in understanding how communities can engage in shaping the future of education.

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Critical Race Theory and the Interest Divergence Dilemma

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On Critical Race Theory - Why it Matters & Why You Should Care Book

On Critical Race Theory

From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellectual movement became a political necessity.

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Critical Race Theory and the Interest Divergence Dilemma In this talk, Dr. Ray draws on two central critical race theory concepts—racial progress narratives and interest convergence to explain the current backlash. Ideas from critical race theory can explain the recent uproar over this insurgent body of knowledge. In opposition to mainstream notion of inevitable progress, critical race theorists see racial progress as fragile and contingent. And some political actors are pushing the United States toward a period of interest divergence. As some white Americans increasingly see their interests as fundamentally different from those of their nonwhite fellow citizens. Co-sponsored by The Annenberg Institute at Brown University, Brown University Department of Africana Studies, and The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.

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An Hour with Kihana Ross

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Black Space in Education: On antiblackness in schools, educational fugitivity, and how we get free

In this talk, I explore what it means for Black students to navigate, refuse, and resist antiblackness in schools. I take seriously the ways slavery and its afterlives continue to mark Black learners, and yet I am committed to understanding how we carve out space – how we develop and sustain Black Educational Fugitive Space, for Black folks to sit with the weight of antiblackness in education while also engaging in the political act of Black dreaming—to imagine strategies for wrestling with our educational realities while building towards Black educational futurities.

Co-sponsored with the Brown Department of Education.

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Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach To Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts

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The Annenberg Institute will host Jason Okonofua, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, for a discussion of his research on reducing the consequences of bias in real-world contexts. Drawing on social psychology, Dr. Okonofua will explore evidence-based approaches that shift the situations and systems in which decisions are made to help reduce the impact of bias. His talk will highlight research with implications for education and other public systems, examining how scalable interventions can promote more equitable outcomes.

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Research Insights with Jessica Wagner

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The Annenberg Institute will host Jessica Wagner for a discussion of her research on the economics of education. Drawing on her work examining factors that influence educational opportunity and outcomes, she will explore how policies, institutions, and educational practices shape students’ experiences and access to learning. The talk will highlight the role of research in understanding and addressing challenges related to equity and opportunity in education.

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Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

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Willful Defiance Book

Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement that spread across the country.

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Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Speaker, Panel Discussion, & Book Signing

Mark Warren will discuss how Black and Brown parents and young people have challenged zero tolerance and racially discriminatory discipline practices and policing policies that push students of color out of schools and into the criminal justice system. He will highlight the strategies they have used to organize locally to change policies that criminalize children and build alliances with allies to create a national movement that has begun to reduce exclusionary discipline, defund and remove police from schools, and pursue visions of education for liberation.

Mark will be joined by a panel of high school students from the Providence Alliance for Student Safety (PASS) coalition, who are organizing to remove police from their schools, end the criminalization of students of color, and implement alternatives like transformative/restorative justice to create educational environments that are safe, supportive, and empowering to low-income students of color.

 

Mark R. Warren is professor of public policy and public affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a sociologist and community engaged scholar who studies and works with community, parent and youth organizing groups seeking to promote equity and justice in education, community development, and American democratic life. Warren is the author of six books, most recently Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Mark has co-founded several networks promoting activist scholarship, community organizing and education justice, including the People’s Think Tank on Educational Justice, Urban Research Based Action Network, and the Special Interest Group on Community and Youth Organizing in the American Educational Research Association. He has won a number of awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. He is married to Roberta Udoh, a Boston Public Schools teacher, and together they have raised two beautiful daughters. Visit Mark’s website here.

 

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