Pauline Lipman is professor of Educational Policy Studies and Director of the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her teaching, research, and activism grow out of her commitment to social justice and liberation. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on race and class inequality in education, globalization, and political economy of urban education, particularly the inter-relationship of education policy, urban restructuring, and the politics of race. Pauline is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and policy reports. Her newest book, The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City (Routledge, 2011), argues that education is integral to neoliberal economic and spatial urban restructuring and its class and race inequalities and exclusions as well as to the potential for a new, radically democratic economic and political social order. Her previous book, High Stakes Education and Race, Class and Power in School Restructuring, received American Education Studies Association, Critics Choice Awards. In 2011, she received the American Education Research Association Distinguished Contribution to Social Contexts in Education Research, Lifetime Achievement Award.

Pauline was a founding member of Teachers for Social justice in Chicago and as an active member of TSJ she has been involved in grassroots education organizing against education privatization. She works with parents and students to advocate for strong, equitable, democratic neighborhood public schools and community-driven school transformation.

Lipman, P. (2017). The landscape of education “reform” in Chicago: Neoliberalism meets a counterhegemonic movement. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 25 (54). https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2660/1914
Gutierrez, R. R. & Lipman, P. (2016). Towards Social Movement Activist Research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29(10), 1241-1254.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09518398.2016.1192696
Lipman, P. (2017). Economic crisis, charter school expansion, and coercive neoliberal urbanism in the U.S.A. In B.S. Ndimande & C. Lubienski (Eds.) Privatization and the education of marginalized children: Policies, impacts and global lessons. (pp. 17-40). New York: Routledge.
Lipman, P. (2015). Accumulation by dispossession: Closing schools and state abandonment of communities of color. In B. Picower & E. Mayorga, What’s Race Got To Do With It: How current school reform policy maintains racial inequality. Peter Lang Publishers.
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