Reed Academy Educator Presents at AERA Conference

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Dr. Cedric Stewart, an educator at Reed Academy, recently presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference in San Francisco. This year’s theme, “Education and Poverty: Theory, Research and Praxis,” emphasized the focus of education as a way out of poverty in the U.S. and globally. The objective was to have educators come together to discuss, debate, and consider the relationships between education and poverty. More than 15,000 national and international scholars and educators from K-12 and university levels attended.

Stewart presented the results of his ongoing original research materials. Using his research agenda of critical race theory (CRT) and intersectionality, Stewart discussed two peer-reviewed papers that focused on the understudied relationship between African American teachers and their Latino students. His first presentation, “African American Teachers and Their Latino Students: A Mixed-Methods Study of Perceptions and Attitudes About Race, Ethnicity, and Students’ Academic Performance,” sought to examine if the relationship between racially incongruent teacher student pairings (African American Teachers and Latino students) had an effect on the students’ academic performance as measured by high-stakes testing.

Stewart’s second presentation, “African American Teachers and Latino Students: A Case Study of Racial/Ethnic Teacher-Student Incongruence in an Urban School,” was a qualitative study that focused on the teachers’ perspectives in urban schools that had both large numbers of African American teachers as well as high numbers of Latino students.

Stewart’s original dissertation was awarded third place in the Outstanding Dissertation Award Category in the mixed methodology special interest group (SIG).

Dr. Cedric Stewart (standing) is pictured above with colleagues from Reed Academy.