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Rich Milner is a researcher, scholar and leader of urban education and teacher education. Centering on equity and diversity, he has spent hundreds of hours observing teachers’ practices and interviewing educators and students in urban schools about micro-level policies that shape students’ opportunities to learn. 

He examines the social context of classrooms and schools and looks at how the ways in which teachers talk (particularly about race) influences student learning, identity and development. 

His research in urban schools and his book, “’These Kids are out of Control:’ Why We Must Reimagine Classroom Management,” (Corwin Press, 2018) has influenced designs and practices of teacher education courses and programs.

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65 Years After 'Brown v. Board,' Where Are All the Black Educators?

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Education, Department of Teaching and Learning

Distinguished Speaker: H. Richard Milner IV
Thursday, October 25, 2018

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H. Richard Milner IV is Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Education and Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Milner's research examines practices and policies that support teacher effectiveness in urban schools. 

"Disrupting Punitive Practices and Policies: Rac(e)ing Back to Teaching, Teacher Preparation, and Brown"

In this talk, Milner examines practices and policies at national, state, district, and local levels that are implicitly or overtly designed to punish rather than support academic, social, cultural, and psychological development of Black, Brown, and low-income students. Race and racism continue to penetrate the very fabric of the United States and the education system and the intentions of Brown, particularly racial equity and justice, have yet to be realized. Many people, including educators, may find it difficult to understand the ways in which race and racism emerge in education policy and practice.

Richard Milners' talk was be immediately followed by a moderated discussion with Milner, two policy experts, and the audience.
 
Moderator:
Emily Hanford
Senior Education Correspondent/Producer, APM Reports
 
Commentators:
Leslie T. Fenwick
Dean Emeritus and Professor, Howard University School of Education

Peter Shulman
CEO, Urban Teachers

Fifteenth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research

2016 AERA Fellow: H. Richard Milner IV

On Oct.15, Rich Milner examined the structural and social policies that shape educators’ mindsets in regard to race and considers how we can support instructional practices that address race and poverty in meaningful way.


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