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Latino Education Policy: Challenges & Insights
Fall 2010:
September 2nd
Rachel Moran, Dean-Designate, UCLA School of Law
“Challenges and Opportunities: My Personal Journey”
September 9th
Kris Gutiérrez, Professor and
Inaugural Provost’s Chair, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Current President, American Educational Research Association
“Re-mediating Educational Policy for Students from Non-dominant Communities”
October 14 th
Roberto Gonzales, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
“Waking Up to a Nightmare: Undocumented Youth and the Confusing and Contradictory Routes to Adulthood”
October 28th
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor,
New York University, and The Fisher Membership Fellow
“Rethinking Latino Education in the Age of Global Vertigo”
November 18th
Tina Trujillo, Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
“School Reform Policies for English Learners: Leaving Pedagogy Behind”
December 9th
Diego Vigil, Professor, Department of Law, Criminology, and Society, UC Irvine
Gil Conchas, Associate Professor, Department of Education, UC Irvine
“StreetSmart SchoolSmart: Urban poverty and the education of adolescent boys”
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Spring 2011:
Thursday, January 27th
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Shorb House Conference Room, 2547
“Pathways to Postsecondary Success for Low-Income Youth: A Focus on Immigrants and Students of Color.”
Daniel Solórzano
Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education,
Director, UC/ACCORD, UCLA
Amanda Datnow
Professor and Director, Education Studies, UCSD
Tuesday, February 1st
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
Documentary Screening – Harvest of Loneliness
Directed by
Gil González
Professor, School of Social Sciences
Professor Emeritus, Chicano/Latino Studies Department, UCI
Vivian Price
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Coordinator of Labor Studies, CSU Dominguez Hills
For more information, please check the Harvest of Loneliness movie website:
http://www.harvestofloneliness.com/
Thursday, March 10th
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Tilden Room, 5th Floor, MLK Jr. Student Union
“Understanding and Responding to the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males”
Pedro Noguera
Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development, NYU
Aida Hurtado
Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB
Thursday, April 14th
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Multicultural Community Center, 200 Floor, MLK Jr. Student Union
“Blowout! Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice”
Mario García
Professor, History and Chicano Studies, UCSB
Sal Castro
Chicano Civil Rights Leader
Thursday, April 21st
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Shorb House Conference Room, 2547 Channing Way
“Discourses of Racist Nativism in California Public Education:
English Dominance as Racist Nativist Microaggressions”
Lindsay Pérez Huber
UC/ACCORD Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA
Thursday, April 28th
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Shorb House Conference Room, 2547 Channing Way
“Arizona, Immigrant Rights, and the Education of English Learners: ¿Adónde vamos?”
Patricia Gándara
Professor of Education,
Co-director, The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, UCLA
