Last Updated 6/12/04
Latino Dropouts: Integrating Scholarship and
Practice
Texas A&M University, College Station
November 16, 2004
The Carlos Cantu Hispanic Education and
Opportunity Endowment, in conjunction with the Project of Equity
Representation and Governance, will be hosting a conference
entitled Latino Dropouts: Integrating Scholarship and Practice
on November 16, 2004, at the Bush Presidential Conference
Center, on the campus of Texas A&M University in College
Station, Texas. The conference will focus on issues related to
Latino dropouts and will feature prominent scholars including
Luis Fraga, Kenneth Meier, Jay Greene, Gloria Rodriquez, and
Mark Winters. These renowned scholars will discuss a variety of
topics relating to the Latino dropout problem, including a
discussion on educational equity, an evaluation of Latino
graduation rates, and an overarching evaluation of various
strategies to solving the broader problem of Latino dropouts.
Because the
conference seeks to highlight scholarly research that can
produce practical solutions to the Latino dropout problem, it
will also attract local superintendents, educational
practitioners and influential policymakers.
The conference activities will consist mostly of panel
discussions, structured so as to encourage dialogue between
practitioners, policymakers, and scholars.
Preliminary Program
Panel I
– Scholars and the Latino Dropout Problem
9:15 – 9:45
Kenneth
J. Meier
“Latino Dropouts: Solving the
Broader Problem”
Professor Meier is the
Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M
University. He also directs the Texas Educational Excellence
Project and the Carlos Cantu Hispanic Education and Opportunity
Endowment.
10:15 – 11:30
Luis Fraga and
Gloria Rodriquez
“Reconceptualizing Educational
Equity”
Luis Ricardo Fraga
is Associate Professor in the Department of Political
Science at Stanford University. His primary research interests
are in educational politics, urban politics, and politics of
race and ethnicity.
Gloria
M. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Educational Leadership at California State University. She
earned a Ph.D. in educational administration and policy analysis
from Stanford University, and her areas of specialization are
educational and school finance policy, with an emphasis on
equity.
Jay Greene and
Marcus Winters
“The Effect of Exit Exams on
Latino Graduation Rates”
Jay P.
Greene is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy
Research. He received his Ph.D. from the Harvard Government
Department in 1995 and then was a professor at the University of
Houston and University of Texas at Austin before moving to
Florida and joining the Manhattan Institute.
Marcus A.
Winters is a research associate at the Manhattan Institute's
Education Research Office, where he studies and writes on
education policy. He has co-authored several studies on
education policy issues including high-stakes testing, charter
schools, and the effects of vouchers on the public school system.
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch
– Bush Conference Facility
1:45 – 3:00
Panel
II– Practitioners and
the Latino
Dropout
Problem
This panel
features invited local school district administrators, including
superintendents, dropout specialists, and general educational
practitioners.
3:15 – 4:15
Panel
II– Policymakers and
the Latino
Dropout
Problem (Invitees)
Adam Chavarria, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
Ruben Hinojosa, United States Congressman, Member
of the Education Committee
Adam
Chavarria, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on
Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
Joaquin Castro, Texas House of Representatives,
Member of the Juvenile Justice Committee
Scott Hochberg, Texas House of Representatives
Mike Villarreal, Texas House of Representatives
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For information on our most recent conference "Latino
Politics: The State of the Discipline" visit http://perg.tamu.edu/lpconf
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