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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

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)
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)
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)
3:45-4 Closing remarks, wrap-up
4-5 Reception

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