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The Urban Education Collaborative is excited to again be co-sponsoring the “Open Court All-Star Male Youth Summit: Educational Preparation and Career Opportunities” in Indianapolis, IN. We have partnered with Rise2Impact and Fathers & Men of Professional Basketball Players. The main purpose of this event is to expose youth to the business and career opportunities in […]

Save the date for our upcoming ICUE conference being held on November 6-9, 2024. Please be sure to check out our official ICUE website at theicue.org for the latest updates and travel information.

Dr. Chance W. Lewis, Carolyn Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education released a new book (with Dr. James L. Moore, III – The Ohio State University) entitled African American Students in Urban Schools: Critical Issues and Solutions for Achievement (Peter Lang Publishers, 2012). For ordering information, click HERE.

Dr. Lewis, Director of the Urban Education Collaborative, presented at the National Association of Multicultural Education in Philadelphia, PA. The topic of the presentation was African American Students in Urban Schools: Critical Issues and Solutions for Achievement.

On Friday, November 8th, 2023, Dr. Chance Lewis delivered a lecture on how major research universities can help improve the performance of K-12 schools in large metropolitan cities.  This was part of Texas A&M School of Education and Human Development Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series.  You can read the article HERE.  You can view the lecture […]

Thank you to everyone who attended ICUE 2022! Thank you to our Keynote Speaker, Glorida Ladson-Billings, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison. We appreciate her powerful keynote address at ICUE. Please see the video below that highlights our experience together. We look forward to seeing you at ICUE 2024 on November 7-9, 2024.

Thank you to all our attendees and presenters at ICUE 2022 for a successful conference.  You can read more about the purpose of the conference and why its important in one of the lastest articles in Diverse Issues in Higher Education. 

“Taking K-12 Urban Education Global, the ICUE Conference Returns”.  You can read the article at Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Registration is now open for the 2022 International Conference on Urban Education.  You can go to our registration page here.  You can learn more about the conference by visiting theicue.org.

Congratulations to graduate student Harriet Hobbs for publishing in Research & Practice in Assessment as the lead author.  You can read the article here.