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RACE, INEQUALITY, AND AMERICAN EDUCATION
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame,
IN
APRIL 3 & 4, 2003
ALL
EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
POST-CONFERENCE UPDATE (4/7/03)
The
"Race, Inequality, and American Education" conference was a tremendous
success! Our invited speakers presented four wonderful papers, and they
had many lively and informative exchanges with our audience.
CONFERENCE
THEME
At
the dawn of the twentieth century, W.E.B. Dubois argued, "The problem
of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." One hundred
years later, we can identify both tremendous progress and persisting
challenges in ameliorating racial inequality in American society. Given
the crucial role that education plays in determining socio-economic
success in American society, the American educational system has been
the arena where many important struggles for racial inequality have
unfolded over the course of the last century. The "Race, Inequality,
and American Education" conference at the University of Notre Dame will
bring together five renowned scholars in the area of race and education
to (1) analyze the causes and consequences of racial inequality in
education, (2) evaluate policies designed to alleviate such
inequalities, and (3) propose new strategies designed to eradicate this
pressing social problem.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
April 3, 2003 (Thursday)
3:00-4:30
P.M. (G-20
Flanner Hall)
"Race
and
Educational Inequality: Cutting Edge Research Issues"
Panelists:
Karl Alexander, Jomills Braddock II, Roslyn Mickelson, and Gary Orfield
7:00-9:00
P.M. (McKenna Hall Auditorium)
"Addressing
Racial Inequality in American Education: A Public Forum"
Panelists:
Karl Alexander, Jomills Braddock II, Roslyn Mickelson, and Gary Orfield
April
4, 2003 (Friday)
(Hesburgh Center
Auditorium -- All Events)
8:45-10:15 A.M.
"Deepening Racial
Stratification of Educational Opportunity:
Implications for Civil Rights and Educational Policy"
Gary Orfield, Harvard
University
10:15-10:30 A.M.
MORNING
BREAK
10:30-12:00 P.M.
"The Persistent Paradox:
Race, Gender, and Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Achievement"
Roslyn Mickelson, University
of North Carolina, Charlotte
12:00-1:30 P.M.
LUNCH
BREAK
1:30-3:00 P.M.
"The Effects of School
Desegregation"
Jomills Braddock II, The University of Miami
3:00-3:15 P.M.
AFTERNOON
BREAK
3:15-4:45 P.M.
"Ruminations on
Gamoran's 'Virtuous Cycle':
Family Advantage and the Educational Prospects of African American
Youth"
Karl Alexander and Travis
Gosa, Johns Hopkins University
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Funding
for this conference was made
possible by a Henkels Visiting Scholars Series grant through the
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) at the University
of Notre Dame, the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO), and the
Department of Sociology.
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