Some of the nation's leading education and civil rights experts will gather on Friday, October 3, for a daylong forum on education and equity to be held at Stanford University. The forum, "Education and Opportunity: The Kerner Commission Forty Year Report," will focus on the 40-year update report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission). The forum is hosted by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) and is free open to the public. Because seating is limited, registration is required. Registration will be filled on a first come, first served basis and can be done through the SCOPE web site (website).
Featured speakers at the forum include:
* Congressman George Miller
* Linda Darling-Hammond (Stanford University)
* Christopher Edley (UC Berkeley)
* Gary Orfield (UCLA)
* Richard Banks (Stanford University)
* Prudence Carter (Stanford University)
* Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation)
* Patricia Gandara (UCLA)
* Kris Gutierrez (UCLA)
* Dorothy Steele (Stanford University)
* Amy Stuart Wells (Teachers College Columbia University)
* Gregory Walton (Stanford University)
* Kevin Welner (University of Colorado at Boulder).
The event is co-sponsored by the Stanford University School of Education, the Eisenhower Foundation (which published the 40 year update to the Kerner report), the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, the Warren Institute at UC Berkeley's School of Law, and the Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. SCOPE is an affiliate of Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.