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Past Events

Brown Bag Seminar: Teachers, Students, and the Low-Performance Trap: Lessons from Africa
Monday, May 16, 2011

Professor Martin Carnoy will discuss a recent study he conducted examining school systems on either side of the border area of two neighboring Southern African countries.

Book Talk: The Flat World and Education
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

An overview of a talk by Linda Darling-Hammond on her book, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine our Future.

Briefing: Turning Around the Race to the Bottom: What ESEA Should Do to Improve Teacher Quality and Equity
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Elected officials and education and civil rights experts discussed needed changes in federal law to ensure greater equity and quality in teachers assigned to low-income classrooms.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Bob Wise, Robert Rothman, Linda Darling-Hammond and others discuss policy lessons learned from high-achieving nations about teacher and leader effectiveness.

Policy Meeting: Teaching Quality Partnerships
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Californian education organizers, civil rights advocates, researchers, educators, and policy experts gathered at Stanford to address the issues of teacher quality.

Brown Bag Seminar: Bye the Books--How Student Perceptions of Inequality Affect Academic Engagement
Monday, March 14, 2011

Stanford Professor Brian Lowery addressed the impact of students' perceptions of inequality on their achievement.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Access a powerpoint presentation from Stanford Professor Rick Banks' talk on the gender gap among African Americans.

Brown Bag Seminar: Hearing What's Not Said and Missing What Is: Language and Race in Hyper-Racial America
Monday, February 7, 2011

In this seminar, Educational Linguistics professor H. Samy Alim will offer pedagogical approaches to address two major "blind spots" in sociolinguistic and education literature.

 Brown Bag Seminar: Education for Racial Understanding: Prejudice and 'The Race Problem' in Mid-Century America
Monday, December 6, 2010

Professor Leah Gordon discusses the evolution of perspectives on educational equity from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Brown Bag Seminar: Sustaining an Equity Focus in the Face of Budget Cuts: Perspectives from Hillsdale High School
Monday, November 29, 2010

Diane Friedlaender, Elle Rustique, and Jeff Gilbert discuss how the equity oriented Hillsdale High School is successfully navigating new budget realities.  

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