Joe Ferrare receives Spencer Foundation Vision Grant

Joe Ferrare, associate professor of data visualization and analytics in IAS, has received a Vision Grant from the Spencer Foundation. The grant, titled “Culture Wars, Curriculum Conflicts & Public Schools,” is a collaboration with Professor Danfeng Koon at the University of San Francisco and Professor Huriya Jabbar at the University of Southern California. The $75,000 grant will support collaboration between researchers, educators, and advocates interested in better understanding and responding to the current culture wars being fought over and through education. The goal of the collaboration is to coordinate an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods, multi-sector and geographically-varied research agenda; propose ways to strengthen research-practice infrastructure; and collect and curate existing resources for educators and policymakers.