(NAME-MCE) Minority Student Achievement Network September 24-27, 2008 Madison WI

[Anselmo Villanueva]

El Futuro de la Juventud: Laying Foundation - Affirming Our Identity -
Building Relationships.

September 24-27, 2008  Madison, WI

http://www.msanetwork.org/

Minority Student Achievement Network

The Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) is a national
coalition of multiracial, suburban-urban school districts that have
come together to study achievement gaps that exist in their districts.
With strikingly similar and disturbing disaggregated achievement data,
racial disparities on an array of achievement outcomes demonstrate
wide gaps in performance between students of color and their white
peers.

Since its inception in 1999 MSAN has worked fervently to discover and
propose strategies to change school practices and structures that keep
these achievement gaps in place. To this end, districts work
collaboratively to conduct and publish research, analyze policies, and
examine practices that affect the academic performance of students of
color, specifically African American and Latino/a students.

For more information about MSAN or if your district might be
interested in joining the Network, please contact the Executive
Director, Dr. Madeline Hafner at the Wisconsin Center for Education
Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, at mhafner at wisc.edu or
(608) 262-1665.