Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Freidus, Alexandra and Erica Turner. Forthcoming. “Contested Justice: New York City’s COVID-19 School Reopening Debates.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Freidus, Alexandra. 2022. “Segregation, Diversity, and Pathology: Constructing School Quality in Gentrifying New York.” Educational Policy 36(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/08959048221087206
Freidus, Alexandra. 2021. “Looking Smart: Race and Ability in a Diversifying Middle School.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 53(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12408
Freidus, Alexandra. 2021. “Problem Children and Children with Problems: Discipline and Innocence in a Gentrifying Elementary School.” Harvard Educational Review 90(4): 550-572. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-90.4.550
Freidus, Alexandra. 2020. “Modes of Belonging: Debating School Demographics in Gentrifying New York.” American Educational Research Journal 57(2): 808-839. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831219863372
Freidus, Alexandra. 2020. “’I Didn’t Have a Lesson’: Politics and Pedagogy in a Diversifying Middle School.” Teachers College Record 122(7). https://doi.org/10.1177/016146812012200714
Freidus, Alexandra. 2019. “‘A Great School Benefits Us All’: Advantaged Parents and the Gentrification of an Urban Public School.” Urban Education 54(8): 1121-1128. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085916636656
Freidus, Alexandra and Pedro Noguera. 2015. “From ‘Good Will’ to ‘Anachronism’: School Desegregation in an Era of Shifting Demographics, Racial Discourse, and Conceptions of the Public Good.” Humanity and Society 39 (3): 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597615601716
invited works
Freidus, Alexandra, Rachel Fish, and Erica Turner. “Risk, Protection, and Vulnerability: Pandemic Discourses about the Schooling of Disabled Children in New York City.” In How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic, edited by Mara Mills, Rayna Rapp, and Faye Ginsburg. New York University Press. Forthcoming.
Freidus, Alexandra and Eve Ewing. 2022. “Introduction to Special Issue: Good Schools, Bad Schools: Race, School Quality, and Neoliberal Educational Policy.” Educational Policy 36(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/08959048221087208
Freidus, Alexandra and Pedro Noguera. 2017. “Making Difference Matter: Teaching and Learning in Desegregated Classrooms.” The Teacher Educator 52 (2): 99-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/08878730.2017.1294925
public scholarship
Freidus, Alexandra. 2021. “Lockdown.” In Lowenhaupt, R. and Theoharris, G. (Eds.), Parenting in the Pandemic: The Collision of School, Work, and Life at Home A Collection of Essays. Information Age Publishing. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Parenting-in-the-Pandemic
Freidus, Alexandra. March 17, 2021. “Race and School Discipline in the COVID Era.” Voices in Education: The Blog of Harvard Education Publishing. https://www.hepg.org/blog/race-and-school-discipline-in-the-covid-era
Freidus, Alexandra. January 31, 2018. “The election, one year later: Life goes on at an East Coast middle school.” Teaching Tolerance Magazine. https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/the-election-one-year-later-life-goes-on-at-an-east-coast-middle-school
Freidus, Alexandra. 2017. “Who are the ‘diversity in admissions’ pilot schools?” Spotlight on NYC Schools. New York: Research Alliance for New York City Schools, New York University. https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/research-alliance/research/spotlight-nyc-schools/who-are-diversity-admissions-pilot-schools
Freidus, Alexandra and Pedro Noguera. August 22, 2017. “False evidence against principal.” Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/education/opinion-false-evidence-against-principal/2017/08