Not Paved for Us: A conversation with Dr. Camika Royal

500 College Avenue,Swarthmore PA 19081

10 November, 2022

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In Not Paved for Us: Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia, urban education scholar, Dr. Camika Royal, deftly analyzes decades of efforts aimed at improving school performance within the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), in a brisk survey spanning every SDP superintendency from the 1960s through 2017. In this book talk and conversation at Swarthmore College, Dr. Royal highlights the experiences of Black educators as they navigate the racial and cultural politics of urban school reform. Ultimately, naming, dissecting, and challenging the presence of racism in school reform policies and practices while calling for an antiracist future. BIO: Dr. Camika Royal, is an associate professor of urban education at Loyola, where she focuses on the intersections of race, politics, history, and urban school reform. Dr. Royal began her career as an urban education professional in the public schools of Baltimore City and Washington, D.C., teaching, coaching teachers, and helping to lead a charter high school before transitioning to higher education in 2006.