CRP Associates

Erica Frankenberg, Ed.D.
Research and Policy Director, The Initiative on School Integration

Email: frankenberg@gseis.ucla.edu

Erica Frankenberg recently received her doctorate in educational policy at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Her research interests focus on racial desegregation and inequality in K-12 schools, and the connections between school segregation and other metropolitan policies. She received her A.B., cum laude, from Dartmouth College and received high honors for her thesis in education policy. She also received a M.Ed. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard. Before graduate school, Ms. Frankenberg worked with a non-profit educational foundation focused on improving the public schools in her hometown of Mobile, Alabama.

She is the co-editor of Lessons in Integration: Realizing the Promise of Racial Diversity in America’s Schools (with Dr. Gary Orfield), published by the University of Virginia Press (2007). In 2006, Frankenberg helped coordinate and write a social science statement signed by 553 social scientists filed with the Supreme Court regarding the benefits of integrated schools. Some of her CRP work has been cited by the Supreme Court in their recent educational diversity cases, Grutter v. Bollinger and PICS v. Seattle School District No. 1.

Other publications include:

• Frankenberg, E. (In press). School Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration: What do these terms mean in a post-PICS, racially transitioning society?  Seattle Journal for Social Justice.
• Frankenberg, E. and Garces, L.M. (In press).  The Use of Social Science Evidence in Parents Involved and Meredith: Implications for Researchers and Schools. Louisville Law Review.
• Orfield, G., & Frankenberg, E.  (January 2008).  The Last Have Become First: Rural and Small Town America Lead the Way on Desegregation.  Los Angeles: Civil Rights Project/ Proyecto Derechos Civiles. http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/deseg/lasthavebecomefirst.pdf
• Frankenberg, E., with Siegel-Hawley, G.  (January 2008).  Are Teachers Prepared for America's Diverse Schools? Teachers Describe their Preparation, Resources and Practices for Racially Diverse Schools.  Los Angeles: Civil Rights Project/ Proyecto Derechos Civiles. http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/deseg/teachersurveyreportfinal.pdf
• Wells, A.S. and Frankenberg E. (2007, November).  Thwarting the Harms of Racial Segregation in Public Schools after the Supreme Court Integration Decision: What to do when the ‘End’ is Justified but the ‘Means’ are Not.  Phi Delta Kappan.
• Frankenberg, E.  (September 2007).  Voluntary Integration After Parents Involved: What does research suggest about available options?  Working Paper prepared for Charles Hamilton Houston Institute of Racial Justice Roundtable, Harvard Law School.
• Orfield, G., Frankenberg, E., and Garces, L.M.  (2007, July 24). Better than Expected but Worse than it Seems: Colleges and the Seattle/Louisville Cases.  Inside Higher Ed. Available online at http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/07/24/orfield
• Orfield, G., and Frankenberg, E.  (July 18, 2007).  The Integration Decision: What next for educators, and for society, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling?  Education Week, Vol. 26, Issue 43, Page 44. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/07/18/43orfield.h26.html
• Frankenberg, E.  (December 2006).  The Segregation of American Teachers.  Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/deseg/segregation_american_teachers12-06.pdf
• Frankenberg, E. (2005).  The Impact of School Segregation on Residential Housing Patterns: Mobile, AL and Charlotte, NC. In J. Boger & G. Orfield, (Eds.), School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back? (pp 164-184). Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
• Orfield, G. & Frankenberg, E. (August 2004). Reviving Brown v. Board of Education: How Courts and Enforcement Agencies Can Produce More Integrated Schools.  In D. L. Rhode and C. J. Ogletree, Jr., (Eds.), Brown at Fifty: The Unfinished Legacy: A Collection of Essays (pp. 185-211). Chicago, IL: American Bar Association.
• Frankenberg, E. and Lee, C. (2003, September 5). Charter schools and race: A lost opportunity for integrated education. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 11(32). http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n32/
• Frankenberg, E., Lee, C., & Orfield, G. (January 2003). A multiracial society with segregated schools: Are we losing the dream? Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.  http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/reseg03/AreWeLosingtheDream.pdf
• Frankenberg, E., & Lee, C. (August 2002). Race in American Public Schools: Rapidly Resegregating School Districts. Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/deseg/Race_in_American_Public_Schools1.pdf