Educational Policy Studies 2015 Conference

Race, Class, and Inequality in American Education:
Placing the Local in Context

Spring 2015

Thursday, April 9:

4-5:30 P.M.: Keynote Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall.

Welcome: Stacey Lee, Professor Educational Policy StudiesResponse:

• Karl Alexander, Research Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
  

Friday, April 10th:

8:30-9:00 AM: Coffee & Continental Breakfast

9-11:30: (Re)Framing the Discourse on Racial and Economic Disparities in
Student Achievement Great Hall (4th Floor) Memorial Union

Welcome: Dean Julie Underwood

• Erica Nelson and Torry Winn, co-authors, Race to Equity Report

• Karen Menendez Coller, Executive Director, Centro Hispano of Dane Co.

• Decoteau Irby, Assistant Professor of Administrative Leadership, UW Milwaukee

• John Diamond, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, UW Madison
  
  Response/Concluding Remarks, Adam Nelson, Professor of Educational Policy Studies

11:45-1:00: Graduate Student Presentations Education Building, rooms 290, 299, 298 and 291

1:10-3:30: Possibilities for Change: Spotlighting Local Practices Great Hall (4th Floor) Memorial Union
Welcome: Lesley Bartlett, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies

• Aydin Bal, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education

• Tony Dugas, Principal, O’Keefe Middle School, MMSD

• Ananda Mirilli, Restorative Justice Director, YWCA

• Sara Goldrick-Rab, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Founding Director of The Wisconsin HOPE Lab

• Everett Mitchell, Director of Community Relations, UW Madison
  
  Response/Concluding Remarks, Michael Apple, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum & Instruction

3:30-4:15 Shuttles to UW South Madison Partnership, 2312 S. Park St.

4:30-6 Closing Speaker and Reception at UW South Madison Partnership

Introduction of Speaker: Bianca Baldridge, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies

Closing Speaker: David Stovall, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies & African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago: "Troubling our Research: Moving Towards Struggle, Community Accountability and Justice".

Conference Co-Sponsors:

• Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)
• Morgridge Center for Public Service
• Partner Schools Network (PSN)
• The Network
• UW School of Education Qualitative Research Methods Minor Committee
• The Wisconsin HOPE Lab