(NAME-MCE) Conference on Latino Education and Immigration October 26-28, 2009 Athens GA

[Anselmo Villanueva]

First Triennial Conference on Latino Education and Immigration

October 26-28, 2009  Athens GA

http://www.coe.uga.edu/clase/conference/index.htm

We invite you to the First Triennial Conference on Latino Education
and Immigrant Integration sponsored by the University of Georgia's
Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) in
collaboration with the National Latino Education Research Agenda
Project.  The conference, October 26-28, 2009 at the University of
Georgia's Center for Continuing Education, is designed to promote a
forum where a range of stakeholders including academics,
practitioners, researchers, grass-roots organizers, policy-makers etc.
can meet to discuss the growing need for focused research and cogent
policy regarding immigrants and education, particularly in the rapidly
changing southeast.

As educational researchers, social scientists, and practitioners turn
their attention to the persistent and increasing Latino student
achievement gap in the United States, unprecedented tensions centered
on failed standards-based educational reforms and contested
immigration policy continue to grow. How, in a heavily politicized
climate, can immigration-related effects on education be effectively
addressed? What “best practices” will help to close the Latino student
achievement gap, and how might these practices be disseminated in the
face of often hostile, apathetic legislatures and/or school boards?
What are the policy and research agendas of Latino-focused centers
around the country, and how can these groups come together with
decision makers? These and related questions will be a particular
focus of attention at the First Triennial Conference on Latino
Education and Immigration. We invite educators, foundation members,
scholars, elected officials, and the community to three days of
substance, research, and policy orientation as these issues relate to
Latino education, defined broadly.