UW-Madison’s John Diamond delivered a keynote presentation at the Carnegie Corporation Summit with Amanda Lewis.
The two co-authored the award-winning book, “Despite the Best Intentions: Why Racial Inequality Persists in Good Schools.” The book is the result of five years of interviews and data-gathering at a suburban high school that “created a rich and disturbing portrait of the racial achievement gap” more than 50 years after the formal end of segregation.
Diamond is the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Education with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He is also a faculty affiliate with the departments of Afro-American Studies and Educational Policy Studies. Lewis is a professor of African American studies and sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also directs the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.
A sociologist of race and education, Diamond studies the relationship between social inequality and educational opportunity through examining how educational leadership, policies, and practices shape students’ educational opportunities and outcomes.
In their presentation, Diamond and Lewis aimed to link the research from their book to work in improvement science, in hopes of adding a more critical lens to that discipline.
The Carnegie Summit, which took place virtually March 31 to April 3 this year, gathered practitioners, researchers, leaders, policymakers, and others to share how they are using continuous improvement approaches and capturing the power of networks.
Learn more about the Carnegie Corporation Summit here.