While there are faculty across campus who study race and equity issues in education at all levels, or conduct research into the factors that shape educational outcomes, Harper says Penn lacked a venue that brought all of those experts together to study equity issues in a cross-disciplinary fashion.
That is why GSE has established the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education, an interdisciplinary hub that will unite researchers who study related topics in order to inform education policy and practice. The Center’s mission is to improve equity in pre-K to 12 schools, colleges, and universities, as well as the social contexts that influence educational outcomes.
