Integration as Public Education Policy: Reflections on the Contours of Inequality

Thu, March 12, 2020 3:00 PM at Lincoln Room, Kellogg Center

Dr. Marta Tienda is Maurice P. During '22 Professor of Demographic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and former director of the Office of Population Research.

Abstract: Integration is a ubiquitous concept in the immigration literature but segregation - its opposite - dominates academic discourse about public education. I argue that restoring the nation's unconditional commitment to quality public education is essential not only to revive economic mobility and restore broadly shared prosperity, but also to broaden the national project of integration beyond race and national origins.