SYMPOSIUM ON INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION
Inequality in education is a defining challenge of our time. Around the world, students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are far more likely to underperform in school than are students from advantaged backgrounds. What are the causes of inequality? And what can we do to reduce inequality? This was the focus of the recent KNAW Early Career Partnership symposium, organized at the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. Keynote speakers were Mike Savage (London School of Economics), Sharon Wolf (University of Pennsylvania), and David Yeager (University of Texas at Austin).The symposium can be watched here.
Call for Papers
Based on the symposium, Eddie Brummelman (University of Amsterdam) and Nienke van Atteveldt (Free University Amsterdam) are editing a special Collection in npj Science of Learning on inequality in education. With the special Collection, they will work toward developing an interdisciplinary understanding of inequality in education. If you have relevant research, please consider submitting a letter of intent (due June 10, 2022). The call for papers can be here.
