Valerie Kinloch, dean of the School of Education, spoke at a national symposium of education, law and policy scholars to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. The civil rights case declared that the segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment, and therefore, unconstitutional. The unanimous ruling was delivered on May 17, 1954, by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren.
Kinloch was selected among a handful of speakers to discuss Brown’s “promise of integration amid major contemporary threats to civil rights in education.” Kinloch, who has built her career on working to change the narrative of equity in education, spoke on the topic of “Growing Critically Conscious Teachers.” The event, titled Brown@65, was May 10 at Penn State.