10:00 am - 11:30 am: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, AND SUSTAINABILITY

CHAIR: REHANA ODENDAAL

• Aaron Benavot, University at Albany, SUNY, Painting education systems green: The inclusion of environment, sustainability and climate content in the curriculum of primary and secondary education
• Nazar Khalid, Jere Behrman, Emily Hannum, and Amrit Thapa, Penn: Floods and children’s learning outcomes in rural India: Do resilient communities offer protection?
• Sukie Yang, Penn: Global norms, national priorities, local realities: Exploring multilevel influences on climate education policy and practice

11:30 am - 11:45 am: Break

11:45 am - 1:15 pm: HIGHER EDUCATION AND BEYOND

CHAIR: JOYCE KIM

• Joan Maya Mazelis, Rutgers University-Camden: “I just feel like you can’t be grown up living with your parents”: Student debt and family support in the transition to adulthood
• Niiaja Wright, Penn; Rory Kramer, Villanova; and Camille Charles, Penn: “The White women were standoffish”: Racialized cultural capital of nonWhite students in elite spaces
• Grace Yajun Zheng, Hong Kong University: Conceptualizing and measuring cultural struggles for college students experiencing upward mobility.

1:15 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch will be served

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm: STRATIFICATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

CHAIR: ELLEN BRYER

• Matthew McKeever, Haverford College: Stability and change in educational attainment in post-Apartheid South Africa
• Daniel Laurison, Swarthmore College: Class ceilings and class floors in the US
• Andrew Taeho Kim and Hyunjoon Park, Penn: Intergenerational educational mobility and life-course income trajectories in Korea 

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Light refreshments