Eve Ewing, author of "Ghosts in the Schoolyard" at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Not sure how well a liveblog will work for this, but I'm going to give it a shot. We're in the basement of the Gutman Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Posting as we go.
The subtitle is "Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side" as the book focuses on the 2013 closings (or read more here).
Currently she's an asssisant professor at University of Chicago; research of the impact of school closings by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research is here.
Note: really solid livetweet thread here. 
Going to give a preview of the book, and then give time for Q & A
in 2013, Chicago closed 50 schools (10,400 students); 90% of those schools were majority black students; 71% has majority black teachers
1 in 4 schools with majority black students and majority black teachers were closed