The Race, Education and Democracy Lecture and Book Series, a collaborative effort of Simmons College and Beacon Press, will bring annually to Boston a prominent scholar to deliver three to four public lectures on the topic of Race, Education and Democracy. These lectures will form the basis for a book to be published by Beacon Press. 

This Lecture and Book Series aims to reestablish in the public imagination the historic connection between public education and the possibility of a robust democracy, against the backdrop of the issue of race in America.

The Series is aimed at a broad audience and will present educational issues in all their complexities, in readily accessible language.  The Series proceeds on the assumption that public education is at the center of American public life and that discussions about critical educational issues need to occur in the public domain and engage Americans from many different backgrounds in thoughtful and complicated conversations.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Carol Corbett Burris will deliver the 2012 Race, Education and Democracy Lectures. The overarching theme of her lectures is Detracking to Close the Opportunity/Achievement Gap: How Teachers, School and Community Leaders Can Join the 21st Century Struggle Against Separate and Unequal Education

Dr. Burris is principal of South Side High School in the Rockville Centre School District in NY. Her writings have appeared in Educational Leadership, The Kappan, American Educational Research Journal, The Teachers College Record, Theory into Practice, The School Administrator, The American School Board Journal and EdWeek.

She is co-author with Delia T. Garrity of Detracking for Excellence and Equity, ASCD, Alexandria, Va. 2008.


Books by Dr. Carol Corbett Burris:

Theresa Perry
Professor of Africana Studies and Education
Simmons College
300 The Fenway
Boston, Ma. 02115
P. 617-521-2257
theresa.perry@simmons.edu