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Faculty Profile

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Pauline Lipman's research focuses on race and class inequality in schools, globalization, and the political economy and cultural politics of race in urban education. She is the author of two books: Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring (SUNY, 1998), High Stakes Education; Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform (Routledge, 2004), and numerous articles on these topics. An advocate of activist and engaged scholarship, her current projects examine the relationship of school policy to neoliberal urban development. Her research as a UIC Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar (2007-2008) focuses on; Chicago's Renaissance 2010 school policy in relation to gentrification and displacement of communities of color. She is also director of UIC's Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education;and a founder of Teachers for Social Justice.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS  (more)

- Lipman, P. (In press). Mixed-income schools and housing: Advancing the neoliberal urban agenda. Journal of Education Policy.

- Lipman, P. (In press.). ﾓEducation Policy, the Politics of Race, and the Neoliberal Agenda: The Urgency to Reclaim Social Justice in Literacy Teaching.ﾔ In S. Greene & D. Abt-Perkins, Eds. Making race visible: Literacy research for cultural understanding. Peter Lang.

- Lipman, P. & Haines, N. (2007). From education accountability to privatization and African American exclusion ﾖ Chicagoﾒs ﾓRenaissance 2010.ﾔ Educational Policy, 21(3), pp.471-502.

- Lipman, P. & Hursh, D. (2007). Renaissance 2010: The reassertion of ruling-class power through neoliberal policies in Chicago. Policy Futures in Education, 5 (2).

- Lipman, P. (2007). ﾓNo Child Left Behind:ﾔ Globalization, the Labor Market, and the Politics of Inequality.ﾔ In E. W. Ross & R. Gibson (Eds.), Neoliberalism and educational reform: Marxian perspectives on the impact of globalization on teaching and learning. Hampton Press.

- Lipman, P. (Interviewed by Kenneth Saltman). (2007) "Feasting on disaster: Urban school policy, globalization, and the politics of disaster." In K. Saltman (Ed.). Schooling and the Politics of Disaster. New York: Routledge.

HONORS AND AWARDS

- AESA Critics Choice Award, Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring. 1998

- Senior Fellow in Urban Education, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 1998-2000

- AESA Critics Choice Award, High Stakes Education, 2004

- Great Cities Faculty Scholar. Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois-Chicago. 2007-2008.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago)

American Educational Research Association

British Educational Research Association

American Anthropological Association.

Urban Affairs Association

Social Justice Action Committee, American Educational Research Association