Peter T Piazza

Peter T Piazza

Adjunct Faculty, Coordinator of Clinical Practice

ppiazza1@stonehill.edu
Education

Biography

Peter Piazza is a Professor of Practice in Graduate Teacher Education in Graduate and Professional Studies at Stonehill College. In this capacity, he teaches courses in the Justice, Anti-Discrimination and Education strand and supports graduate students in their practicum placements. He joined Stonehill in a full-time faculty position in 2025 after having served as an adjunct instructor at Stonehill since 2021. Previously, he co-led the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Educational Assessment (MCIEA), a coalition of public K-12 districts piloting a non-test-based form of school quality measurement. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Penn State’s Center for Education and Civil Rights, and he writes about race and school integration at the School Diversity Notebook blog, an affiliate of the National Coalition on School Diversity. He has also been an adjunct instructor in the Curriculum and Instruction Ph.D. program at Boston College and the Leadership in Schooling Ed.D. program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research and writing have been published in the Journal of Education Policy, Critical Studies in Education, and the Berkeley Review of Education as well as the Bay State Banner, CommonWealth Magazine, and The Hechinger Report. 

Education

  • Ph.D., Boston College
  • M.Ed., Boston College
  • B.A., College of the Holy Cross

Courses Taught

  • Diversity, Disproportionality, and Discipline
  • Carey, A. J., Lustick, H., Noonan, J., & Piazza, P. (2025). Red Light! Green Light! An analytic frame and learning device for race talk. Equity and Excellence in Education, 1-13. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10665684.2025.2490894
  • Phillippo, K., Donnelley-Power, C., Piazza, P., Leo, M. (2025) How policy positionality helps explain policy that doesn’t fit students. American Journal of Education, 131(3). https://doi/10.1086/734908
  • Noonan, J., Carey, A. J., Lustick, H., & Piazza, P. (2024). Safety first: the hidden curriculum of whiteness in race-conscious professional learning. Whiteness and Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/23793406.2024.2414223
  • Piazza, P., & Feldkamp, K. (2024). Affirmative Action. In Decker, J. R., Lewis, M. M., Shaver, E. A., Blankenship, A. E., & Paige, M. A. (Eds). The Principal's Legal Handbook. Education Law Association.
  • Noonan, J., & Piazza, P. (2023, January). Accountability Systems and the Persistence of School Segregation: Research Evidence and Future Directions. Research Brief No. 16. National Coalition on School Diversity. https://www.school-diversity.org/wp-content/uploads/NCSD_RB16.pdf
  • Piazza, P. (2022). Back to the future: Revising old critiques to find a culturally sustaining form of school integration. In J. Bassett (Ed.), Detroit and the New Political Economy of Integration. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Schneider, J., Piazza, P., White, R., & Carey, A. (2021). Social and emotional outcomes in racially integrated schools: looking beyond test scores. Education and Urban Society. DOI: 10.1177/00131245211004569

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