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Adrienne D. Dixson

Penn State University

Adrienne Dixson is Department Head of Education Policy Studies at the Penn State College of Education. Previously she was executive director of the Education and Civil Rights Initiative (ECRI), and a professor of educational leadership studies at the University of Kentucky. Her primary research interest focuses on educational equity in urban schooling contexts, applying a Critical Race Theory framework. She is interested in how educational equity is mediated by school reform policies in the urban south and is examining school reform in post-Katrina New Orleans, how local actors make sense of and experience those reform policies and how those policies become or are "racialized."

Email Adrienne Dixson at: add5746@psu.edu