Dr. James Wright's research highlights how educational policy and education leadership discourses and practices contribute to a repressive school experience for minority students and their communities. His areas of specialization includes leadership in ethnic studies, achievement gap discourses in education, and inequities and injustices in K-12 school polities.

He was a past Tuesday teach-in guest on Evening WURDs and returned this week to discuss his new book "Critical Ethnic Studies & the Global Pursuit of Justice".

Dr. James Wright - Evening WURDs 8.25.25

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