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Linda Darling-Hammond: Keynote speech Click here to download. (PDF file)

Patricia Gandara: The Increasing Complexity of Race and Schooling. Click here to download. (PDF file)

Goodwin Liu: Remarks. Click here to download. (PDF file)

Gary Orfield: The Schools and the Pursuit of an Integrated America Click here to download. (PDF file)

Amy Stuart-Wells: Schools and Opportunity: Understanding White Resistance to Structuring Access to Knowledge Click here to download. (PDF file)

Gregory Walton: Latent Ability: Grades and Test Scores Underestimate the
Intellectual Ability of Negatively Stereotyped Students Click here to download. (PDF file)

Kevin Welner: Schools and Opportunity: Structuring Access to Knowledge" Click here to download. (PDF file)

Recommended Readings

"What Together We Can Do: A Forty Year Update of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders" Click here to download. (PDF file)

"Assessment for Learning around the World: What Would it Mean to Be 'Internationally Competitive?' " Forthcoming paper for the Phi Delta Kappan by Linda Darling-Hammond and Laura McCloskey Click here to download. (PDF file)

"Educational Quality and Equality: The Ongoing Challenge to Secure a Right to Learn," a chapter from: What Together We Can Do by Linda Darling-Hammond. Click here to download. (PDF file)

"A Question of Belonging:Race, Social Fit, and Achievement," by Gregory Walton and Geoffrey Cohen (For Panel 3: “Classrooms and Opportunity: Instruction, Identity, and Learning”) Click here to download. (PDF file)

"Structuring Curriculum: Technical, Normative and Political Considerations," by Kevin Welner and Jeannie Oakes (For Panel 2: “Schools and Opportunity: Structuring Access to Knowledge") Click here to download. (PDF file)