SCOPE Brown Bag Seminar Series: Equity Quality & Educational Opportunity

SCOPE is pleased to announce an engaging line-up for our 2010-11 series, running October 2010 through May 2011 and featuring leading Stanford faculty in education, psychology, business and law. The complete line-up features:

October 4: Teaching and Talking About Race Paula M. L. Moya, Stanford University Associate Professor of English and Hazel Markus, Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University

November 29: Sustaining an Equity Focus in the Face of Budget Cuts: Perspectives from Hillsdale High School Linda Darling-Hammond, SCOPE Co-Director Diane Friedlaender, SCOPE/SRN Senior Associate Jeff Gilbert, Hillsdale High School Principal

December 6: Education for Racial Understanding: Prejudice and "the Race Problem" in Mid-Century America Leah Gordon, Stanford University Assistant Professor of Education.

February 7: Hearing What’s Not Said and Missing What Is: Language and Race in a Hyper-Racial America H. Samy Alim, Stanford University Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Anthropology and Linguistics |

March 7: Why Do (Black) Boys Fail? Richard Banks, Stanford University Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law

March 14: Bye the Books: How Student Perceptions of Inequality Affect Academic Engagement Brian Lowery, Stanford University Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior

May 16: Teachers, Students, and the Low-Performance Trap: Lessons from Africa and Latin America Martin Carnoy, Stanford University Vida Jacks Professor of Education

May 23: The Criminal, the Ape, and the Static Being: Three Views of Blacks in the Modern Era Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford University Associate Professor of Psychology