Third Annual State of the
Research Conference
Structures, Cultures, and Achievement
Gaps:
New Research with Implications for
Public Engagement
June 18th and 19th, 2007
This
Conference was made possible by a grant from Time Warner Inc.
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Day
1:
Monday June
18
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Our National Culture and It’s
Youth Subcultures: How Children of Color Fit
Within Our National Culture
and Key Implications for Closing Achievement Gaps
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| 10:00 - 10:10 |
Welcoming Statements Kathleen McCartney, Dean of the Graduate
School of Education |
10:10 - 10:30 |
Last Year’s
Conference and How We’re
Building On What We Learned
Ron Ferguson, AGI Co-Chair & Director |
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Social Fit and School Success: What
Young People of Color Believe about Purpose,
Opportunity,
Intellect, and their Places in the
Society.
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, “Race, Politics and Sex:
Understanding the Attitudes and Behaviors of African American Youth”
Joshua Aronson, New York University, “How Racial Stereotypes
Color Self-Perceptions of Ability and Why it Matters.”
Daphna Oyserman, University of Michigan, “Fitting in matters:
markers of in-group belonging and academic outcomes academic outcomes ”
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| 11:50-12:30 |
Audience Reactions and Discussion |
12:30 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
1:30- 2:25 |
Beats and Rhymes: A documentary about Manhood
in Hip-Hop Culture,
a film by Byron Hurt |
2:25 - 2:50 |
Ronald Ferguson, Harvard University, "Hip-Hop and
self-esteem" |
2:50 - 3:15 |
Break |
3:15 - 4:15 |
Helping
More Youth of Color Acculturate to High Achievement: Music,
Behavior, Schooling, and “Code Switching” for Academic
Fit
Travis L. Gosa, John Hopkins University, “Messages
in the Music: How Rap Lyrics Both Encourage and Discourage School Engagement.”
Rebecca Wheeler, Christopher Newport University, “How English teachers
lead students to code-switch linguistically.”
Daphna Oyserman, University of Michigan, “How
enriched images of possible selves enhance school engagement: evidence
from an experiment ”
Robert Clark, YouthBuild Newark, “Helping High School Dropouts Make
Sense of their Lives and Transition into Productive Adulthood.” |
4:15 - 5:00 |
Audience Reactions and Discussion: Whose Culture(s)
Should Change?
How
Can We Make It Happen? |
5:00 - 6:00 |
Reception |
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Day
2:
Tuesday
June 19
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Structures and Cultures
in Schooling and Parenting and Key Implications
for Policy, Programming, and Public Engagement |
| 9:00 - 10:25 |
Structures
& Cultures that Affect School Improvement Under NCLB and
Some Implications for Public Engagement
Richard Elmore, Harvard University, “Accountability and School
Improvement”
Helen Ladd, Duke University, “High Poverty Schools and the Distribution
of Teachers and Principals”
Susan Moore Johnson, Harvard University, “Teacher Assignment in Low-income
Schools”
Thomas Kane, Harvard University, “Teacher Policy and the Achievement
Gap” |
| 10:25 - 10:45 |
Break
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10:45 - 12:00
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Forces Beyond their
Control: How School &
College Cultures Shape Students’
Achievement Outcomes and What We Should Do to Help
Amanda Lewis, University of Illinois at Chicago "Institutional
and Everyday forms of Discrimination and Achievement Outcomes"
John Diamond, Harvard University "School Structures, Expectations,
and Peer Dynamics in a Multiracial High School"
Prudence Carter, Harvard University "The Multiple Dimensions of
Boundaries in U.S. Schools: Observations from the Northeast & South"
Mica Pollock, Harvard University |
| 12:00 - 1:00 |
Lunch |
1:00 - 1:30 |
Forces Beyond their Control: How School &
College Cultures Shape Students’
Achievement Outcomes and What We Should Do to Help (continued)
Ronald Ferguson, Harvard University "How Instruction and Peer Culture
Affect Student Engagement in Several Domains: Evidence from the Tripod
Project"
Melissa Roderick, University of Chicago "Potholes on the road to
college
Managing college application among CPS students"
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| 1:30 - 3:00 |
Parenting for High Achievement: How Money, Stress & Culture
Matter and How Society Can Help through Policy and Public Engagement
Kevin Lang, Boston University "The Black-White
Test Score Differential"
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Harvard University "Workforce
Development Policies’ Effects on Children and Adolescents in Poverty"
Dodie Norton, University of Chicago "Preschool
Parent-Child Language Functions and Early School Literacy"
William Beardslee, Harvard University "Aligning
resources to enable families to accomplish the tasks that support children
in learning in school"
Susan Landry, University of Texas "Parent Processes that Support School
Readiness"
Wendy Luttrell, Harvard University |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Break |
| 3:15 - 4:00 |
Discussion of Public Engagement
Ideas |
4:00 |
Adjourn |
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