Despite the Best Intentions: Exploring why racial inequality persists in good schools

Amanda E. Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and co-director of the university-wide Race and Difference Initiative at Emory University. Her research focuses on how race shapes educational opportunities and on how our ideas about race get negotiated in everyday life.  She is the author of several books including the award-winning Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the color-line in classrooms and communities(Rutgers University Press 2003).  She is currently at work on a new book(with John Diamond), titled Despite the Best Intentions: Why racial inequality persists in good schools (Oxford, forthcoming).  She lectures and consults regularly on issues of educational equity and contemporary forms of racism.

The Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) was founded in 2008 to foster research, policy, and practice to advance high quality, high equity education systems in the United States and internationally.

SCOPE engages faculty from across Stanford and from other universities to work on a shared agenda of research, policy analysis, educational practice, and dissemination of ideas and is an affiliate of the Stanford University School of Education and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford. SCOPE sponsors the work of two other centers: the School Redesign Network and the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity.