Erica
Frankenberg
Professor of Education and Demography
Expertise:
- Civil Rights
- Education
Focus Areas:
- Diversity
- Racism
- Social Justice Movements
- Civil Rights Education
In The Media:
About
- Frankenburg's research examines how demographic patterns relate to school segregation, as well as the relationship between housing and school segregation
- Another aspect of her work examines how districts respond to the Supreme Court's 2007 voluntary integration decision, and how de facto segregation has evolved, and its impact
Erica Frankenberg is a professor of educational and demography at Penn State’s College of Education. Her research focuses on racial and economic segregation in K-12 schools and the connection between school segregation and other metropolitan policies. A large component of her work looks at how the design of school choice policy affects racial and economic student stratification.
Frankenberg is the co-director of the Center for Civil Rights and Education, a faculty research affiliate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education, and a faculty research associate in the Population Research Institute.
In The Media
70 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, public schools still deeply segregated
from SFGATE January 5, 2024
from Philadelphia Inquirer July 2, 2021
‘Do You Support Busing?’ Is Not the Best Question
from The New York Times July 6, 2019
“That could have been a really different turning point in terms of how we think about school desegregation, but also about our neighborhoods,” said Erica Frankenberg, a professor of education at Penn State.
‘Threatening the Future’: The High Stakes of Deepening School Segregation
from The New York Times May 10, 2019
Controversial redistricting plan adopted in Maryland school system
from The Washington Post November 22, 2019
Study: South reinforcing segregation; dividing students
from NBC News September 4, 2019
In Penn State News
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