The Center for Race and Public Education in the South
The Center for Race and Public Education in the South (CRPES) conducts and supports research and scholarship on a variety of issues that lie at the intersection of race, education, and schooling in the southern United States. CRPES advances research that illuminates the causes, consequences, and potential means of ameliorating disparities in African American youth's educational experiences and achievement. This interdisciplinary center brings together education scholars from history, psychology, philosophy, and sociology to investigate the many facets of these disparities. Learn more about our work.
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The Latest from CRPES
Engagement Project Brings Police and Students Together to Better Understand Each Other
The Youth, Blue & U Project created by Dr. Brian Williams brings police & students together to better understand each other.
Read MoreResearch on Students with Interrupted Formal Education Offers Insight into Student Needs Post-COVID
Dr. Chris Chang-Bacon discusses what immigrant youth can teach us about school, post-COVID.
Read MoreEducating for Democracy
Dr. Johari Harris and Dr. Derrick Alridge join UVA's Lifetime Learning podcast to discuss Educating for Democracy curriculum.
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- Teachers in the Movement, Leaders in the Making
- More Than Words: Oral Storytelling Project Brings Black History to Life
- Chris Chang-Bacon Awarded for Research on Interrupted Education
- UVA Professors Climb in Rankings of Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars
- Professor Alridge Awarded Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion
- What Immigrant Youth Can Teach Us About School, Post-COVID
- Newly Renamed Hunter Student Research Conference Honors UVA’s First Black Woman Graduate
- Black History Month: Resources and Expert Voices
- UVA Helps Educators Wrestle With How to Appropriately Teach Current Events
- Doctoral Students Win Award for Creating Writing Group for Black Scholars at UVA
- Majoring in STEM: A Pipeline for Careers in Social Justice?
- ‘Teachers in the Movement’ Goes Virtual, Links Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
- UVA and Charlottesville City Schools Partner to Host Virtual Freedom School
- Q&A: How Developing Moral Reasoning in Youth Helps Create a Better Democracy
- PrezFest 2019: Educating for Democracy and Social Justice
- Ph.D. Candidate Profile: Hunter Holt
- Video: Re-envisioning Race and Education in the New South
- Virginia Teachers Talk Civil Rights and Social Justice at Inaugural Institute
- Alridge and Nimax Honored as Leaders, Community-Builders in Equity Efforts
- Professor Derrick P. Alridge: Charlottesville Was Latest Battlefield in the Long Struggle for Equality