Getting Into Good Trouble at School: A Guide to Building an Antiracist School System

About Douglas S. ReedGregory C. Hutchings

Gregory C. Hutchings Jr. is a nationally recognized educational leader antiracism activist and adjunct professor who unapologetically advocates for Black Indigenous and People of Color and racial equity. He has over twenty years of combined educational experience as a teacher school principal central office administrator superintendent and college professor. Dr. Hutchings is the chief executive officer and founder of an educational consulting firm Revolutionary Ed LL C. His lifes work is educational service and dismantling systemic racism in schools across America. Dr. Hutchings was the 2018 recipient of the Joseph E. Hill Superintendent of the Year Award with the National Alliance of Black School Educators. Dr. Hutchings earned his doctorate in educational policy planning and leadership from the College of William & Mary. He currently serves on numerous national boards and is an active member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. Dr. Hutchings is a native of Alexandria Virginia where he currently serves as the superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools and resides with his wife and their two children. Douglas S. Reed is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University where he is the founding director of the MA Program in Educational Transformation. His research interests center on the politics of education educational policymaking federalism and judicial politics. His current work focuses on legal notions of race equality and colorblindness and how educational policy can improve student outcomes by directly addressing the racial contexts and experiences of students. He is the author of Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State (Oxford University Press 2014) and On Equal Terms: The Constitutional Politics of Educational Opportunity (Princeton University Press 2001). He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars an Advanced Studies Fellow at Brown University and was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation as well as a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow. He earned his PhD from Yale University.