Background
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Gloria Ladson-Billings
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Education
And was educated in the Philadelphia public school system.
Career
She is currently Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs. Ladson-Billings is known for her groundbreaking work in the fields of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Critical Race Theory. Ladson-Billings served as president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2005.
Ladson-Billings, G. (2000).
Racialized discourses and ethnic epistemologies. North. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (eds).
Handbook of Qualitative Research (Second edition). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.
(1999). Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education.
In L. Parker, Doctorate. Deyhele, South. Villenas (Eds) Race is…race isn’t: Critical race theory and qualitative studies in education (7-30). Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. Still_blackthe_academy.edu.
Presidential address at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. (2008).
Keynote speaker at the Wisconsin state Martin Luther King Day celebration in the state capitol rotunda at Madison.
Achievements
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During the 2005 AERA annual meeting in San Francisco, Ladson-Billings delivered her presidential address, "From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in United States. Schools," in which she outlined what she called the "education debt", highlighting the combination of historical, moral, socio-political, and economic factors that have disproportionately affected African-American, Latino, Asian, and other non-white students. From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in United States. Schools.
