Brown Bag Seminar Series

October 3, 2011: "Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)? Understanding the Racial Identities of Upwardly Mobile Black College Students"
Camille Charles, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
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October 31, 2011: "Girls, Math and Other Clues about how Stereotypes Affect Academic Achievement"
Claude Steele, Dean of the School of Education, Stanford University
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November 14: "Closing the Language Gap: ELLs and the Common Core Standards"
Kenji Hakuta, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford University
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January 30, 2012: "Building Equitable Classrooms"
Rachel Lotan, Professor of Education, Director of the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) and Program for Complex Instruction, Stanford University

February 13, 2012: "Displacement, Disruption, and Schooling: Education and Armed Conflict on the U.S.-Mexico Border"
Guadalupe Valdès, Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Stanford University

February 27, 2012: "A Question of Belonging: A Social-Psychological Approach to Understanding and Remedying Group Disparities in School Achievement"
Greg Walton, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

March 5, 2012: "Despite the Best Intentions: Exploring Why Racial Inequality Persists in Good Schools"
Amanda Lewis, Associate Professor of Sociology, Emory University

April 9, 2012: "Desegregated Schools and Segregated Education"
William Darity, Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics, Duke University

April 23, 2012: "From the Courtroom to the Classroom: Seeking Educational Finance Reform in California"
William Koski, Eric and Nancy Wright Professor of Clinical Education, Stanford Law School

May 21, 2012: "Marketized Educational Reforms and the Politics of Advocacy"
Janelle Scott, Assistant Professor of Education and African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley