Why diversity is not enough to reach real integration in schools: Prudence Carter

Prudence L. Carter is a professor of education and faculty director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford. Her expertise includes issues of youth identity and race, class and gender; urban poverty; social and cultural inequality; and the sociology of education. She is the author of the awardwinning Keepin' It Real: School Success beyond Black and White (2005); Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools (2012); and co-editor of Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance (2013), all published by Oxford University Press.