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DeBray-Pelot

Elizabeth DeBray-Pelot, an associate professor in the College of Education’s department of lifelong education, administration, and policy, spoke about an article she co-wrote titled, “Federal legislation to promote metropolitan approaches to educational and housing opportunity,” at a seminar hosted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C., on October 19.

DeBray-Pelot and co-author Erica Frankenberg, an assistant professor, in educational policy studies at Pennsylvania State University, spoke to participants of the Fair Housing Equal Opportunity Seminar.

The article appeared in the spring 2010 issue of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy.

DeBray-Pelot is author of Politics, Ideology, and Education: Federal Policy during the Clinton and Bush Administrations (Teachers College Press, 2006) which analyzes the politics of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in the 106th and 107th Congresses.

She has authored articles on school desegregation, school choice, high schools’ organizational response to accountability policies, and compensatory education. She joined the UGA faculty in 2005.

DeBray-Pelot received her Ed.D. in administration, planning and social policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2001. Between 2002-05, she was a Fellow in Advanced Studies Fellowship Program on Federal and National Strategies of School Reform at Brown University, research assistant with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education from 1997-2001, and research associate with the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University from 1998-2002.