She holds an appointment in the Department of Foundations, Leadership, and Policies Studies. As a sociologist of education and sociologist of childhoods, her research interests include race, class, and gender as intersecting features informing the academic and social developments of children in general and African-American girls in particular. Scott's current project is a longitudinal multimethod study documenting the lives of the African-American girls discussed in this article over time. This research also concerns how the girls' childhoods unfold given the interplay between their Black femaleness and the sociopolitical climate of the district. Scott examines children and childhoods through a global lens in her forthcoming co-authored book, Kids in Context (Rowmann & Littlefield). She can be reached at soekas@hofstra.edu.