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Brown Bag Seminar Series

Monday, November 10, 2014
Stanford University
Co-Sponsor: 
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

Check here for details of this year's lineup for SCOPE's 2014-2015 Brown Bag Seminar Series.

The complete lineup features: 

October 16, 2014
"The Reconstitution of Crenshaw High School"
Lena Jackson, independent filmmaker and teacher; Larry Cuban, Stanford Professor Emeritus of Education; and Cathy Garcia, former math teacher at Crenshaw. 
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November 10, 2014
"Schooling for Resilience: Lessons from Single Sex Schools"
Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University. 
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December 2, 2014
"Wise Intervention: A Social Psychological Approach to Understanding and Reducing Intergroup Disparities"
Geoffrey Cohen, James G. March Professor of Organizational Studies in Education and Business, Stanford University.
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January 21, 2015
"How the Poorest Schools in South Africa Achieve the Highest Results in Science and Mathematics"
Jonathan Jansen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State.
Co-sponsored by John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.    
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February 23, 2015
"Serendipity Policy in Education: Opportunity Is Not Enough"
Lee Shulman, President Emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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April 13, 2015
"Technology as a Catalyst for Interest-Driven Learning: Designing for Equity"
Brigid Barron, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University.
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April 30, 2015
"The Persistence of “The Persistence of Inequality” Thesis: Women in Higher Education throughout the World"
Francisco Ramirez, Professor of Education, Stanford University. 
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May 4, 2015
"Strategies for Building Resilience and Promoting Adolescent Mental Health: Lessons Learned from Diverse School Settings"
Shashank Joshi, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University Medica Center (by courtesy). 
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May 18, 2015
"The Science of Learning: Big Data, Technology, and Increasing Quality and Equity in Higher Education"
Candace Thille, Director of the Open Learning Initiative, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.
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