Education & Opportunity:
A forum on the Kerner Commission Forty Year Report
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When: Friday, October 3, 2008
Where: Stanford University (get directions)
Panel members
| 7:45-8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:15 |
Introduction: Stanford President John L. Hennessy
Welcomes: Linda Darling-Hammond & Prudence Carter,
Co-Directors, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
Forum Overview: Alan Curtis, President and Chief Executive Officer, Eisenhower Foundation
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| 9:15-10:30 |
Panel 1: “Education Systems and Opportunity: The Kerner Commission Forty Year Report”
- Gary Orfield, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles;
Co-Director, The Civil Rights Project
- Goodwin Liu, Associate Dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Co-Director, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity
- Prudence Carter, Associate Professor, Stanford University; Co-Director Stanford, Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (facilitator)
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-12:15 |
Panel 2: “Schools and Opportunity: Structuring Access to Knowledge"
- Amy Stuart Wells, Professor of Sociology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Kevin Welner, Associate Professor of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder; Director, CU-Boulder Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC)
- Richard Banks, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Stanford University (facilitator)
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| 12:15-1:15 |
Lunch |
| 1:15-2 |
Keynote Address: Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommon Professor, Stanford University; Co-Director, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education |
| 2-2:15 |
Q&A, Optional Break |
| 2:15-3:45 |
Greating: Deborah Stipek, I. James Quillen Dean and Professor of Education
Panel 3: “Classrooms and Opportunity: Instruction, Identity, and Learning”
- Patricia Gandara, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles;
Co-Director, The Civil Rights Project
- Kris Gutiérrez, Professor,
Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles; CO-PI, UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families
- Gregory Walton, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
- Dorothy Steele, Executive Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the Stanford Integrated Schools Project, Stanford University (facilitator)
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| 3:45-4 |
Closing remarks, wrap-up |
| 4-5 |
Reception |
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