News
March 4, 2024
Q&A with Tonia Green, CUE’s Program Director of Learning Enrichment
Tonia shares insight into her work with CUE's MathUp Connections and High-Impact Black Retired Teachers programs.
November 9, 2023
Sharon and Alan Lesgold Room Dedicated at CUE
The Lesgolds were recognized for their many years of generosity and service during a dedication ceremony on November 3, 2023.
August 22, 2023
Martez Files and Khirsten Scott Join CUE as Faculty Leadership Fellows
Files and Scott will further CUE's mission and collective learning within and beyond the university.
April 20, 2023
Cheryl Fields-Smith Joins CUE as Scholar-in-Residence
During this appointment, Fields-Smith will support CUE’s research, service, and knowledge sharing in a variety of ways.
January 13, 2023
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Center for Urban Education honors freedom-fighter, intellectual, and minister Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 3, 2023
Fresh Faces at CUE Making an Impact
Get to know Richard D. Benson II, Rachel Hopkins, and Matthew Speamer, three new members of the CUE team.
September 29, 2022
Richard Benson releases journal on Black student and Black youth activism
Richard D. Benson II, associate director of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Urban Education, is the guest editor of a special issue of Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies.
The issue, which focuses on Black student and Black youth activism, can be read online.
June 27, 2022
Emerging Scholars Present AntiBlackness Research at AERA Conference
Two doctoral students from the Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education were recently invited to present their research on antiBlackness in higher education at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2022 annual conference. The event was held from April 22-25 in San Diego, California.
February 11, 2022
Juwan Z. Bennett: Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Temple University doctoral candidate Juwan Z. Bennett is a post-doctoral research associate at the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.
He studies the relationship between K-12 education and carcerality—a relationship that several communities associate with school-to-prison pipelines or the school-prison nexus.
February 8, 2022
Freedom-Dreaming Initiatives Underway at CUE
Faculty at the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education are working on new freedom-dreaming initiatives in 2022 through projects funded by the Spencer Foundation.
June 8, 2021
Ready to Learn Program Teaches Social Justice Mathematics to Middle Schoolers
Lucia Mogilyansky aims to make math fun for her students in the Ready to Learn (RTL) program of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.
March 19, 2021
School of Education's Response to Recent Femicidal Violence Against Asian Womxn in the U.S.
From the Desk of the Dean - March 18, 2021In Witness, Solidarity, and Invitation
Dear Members of our School of Education Community,
January 21, 2021
Center for Urban Education to House Negro Educational Review Journal
The Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education has been selected as the new home institution of the prestigious research education journal Negro Educational Review (NER).
August 26, 2020
CUESEF 2020 Examines Pandemics Through New Perspectives
The University of Pittsburgh School of Education’s Center for Urban Education’s highly anticipated annual Summer Educator Forum (CUESEF) went virtual in July 2020.
The conference theme “Crisis Pedagogies: Communities, Education and the Public Good” explored how various communities – youth, parents/families, community members, teachers, and administrators – have been impacted by the COVID-19 and racial pandemics.