(NAME-MCE) Dropout Crisis in the Northwest 5-30-08 Seattle WA

[Anselmo Villanueva]

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From: Cynthia del Rosario <cyn at u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Subject:  Dropout Crisis in the NW Conference, FREE, May 30, ECC

The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA announces its
major conference on the challenges of dropout rates in our nation's public
schools

*"The Dropout Crisis in the Northwest: Confronting the Graduation Rate
Crisis in All Communities with Special Focus on American Indian and Alaska
Native Students" ***

*Friday, May 30, 2008***

*8:00AM-4:30PM*

*Ethnic Cultural Theater on the University of Washington campus*

*Registration is FREE and open to the public:
http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu *

With emphasis placed on the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon,
Washington, and Wyoming, the conference seeks to convene students,
activists, practitioners, community leaders, policymakers, and researchers.

Conference goals include:

Identifying and discussing the alarming trends and socioeconomic costs of
the school dropout crisis in the Northwest

Effective models and interventions for improving the graduation rate

Issues related to systems of accountability

Policymaking that needs to happen in order to improve the graduation rate
among the Northwest's most underserved populations, including African
Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, and Latinos

The conference is co-sponsored by: Editorial Projects in Education Research
Center, the College of Education, the Office of Minority Affairs, Institute
for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality (WISER), Native American
Students in Advanced Academia (NASAA) and the Diversity Research Institute
at the University of Washington, the Center for the Study of Leadership in
American Indian Education at Penn State, and the Mexican American Legal
Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF).

For more information about the Civil Rights Project, please go to:
http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu or contact Daniel Liou at
dnyliou at ucla.edu.

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Cynthia del Rosario

Director of Graduate Minority Recruitment & Retention

University of Washington

College of Education & The Information School

Box 353600   MLR 207  /  MGH 330K   Seattle WA 98195

206-543-9779   1-888-241-9610 (toll-free)