2007 Lawrence Frank Invited Symposium: The Achievement Gap
Sponsored by the SRCD Program Committee
Friday, 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Sheraton Constitution A&B
Chair: Eugene Garcia, Arizona State University
Biographical Sketch
Eugene García is Vice President for Education Partnerships at Arizona State University. He received a Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Kansas. He served as Dean of the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education from 2002-2006. He joined ASU from the University of California, Berkeley where he was Dean of The Graduate School of Education. He served as a Senior Officer in the U.S. Department of Education from 1993-1995. He is Chairing the National Task Force on Early Education for Hispanics funded by the Foundation for Child Development and the Mailman Family Foundation. His most recent books include, Student Cultural Diversity: Understanding and Meeting the Challenge—published in 2001 and Teaching and Learning in Two Languages (2005).
Abstract
The US schools continue to generate an achievement gap of significant proportions. Students from racial and ethnic groups have demonstrated such difference in various teaching/learning areas. These achievement gaps are the central focus of the session with an effort to understand these gaps across racial and ethnic groups, at various levels of schooling, and related efforts to reforming education, and non-school factors during early development.
Presentation 1
ECLS-K Analysis of Minority Student Achievement Gaps--K through Grade 5
Speakers: Sean Reardon, Stanford University and Claudia Galindo, Johns Hopkins University
Presentation 2
Understanding the African American Achievement Gap: Poverty, SES, and Gender
Speaker: A. Wade Boykin, Howard University
Presentation 3
Summer Learning and the Achievement Gap: A Randomized Field Trial of a Multi-Year Summer School Program
Speaker: Geoffrey Borman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presentation 4
Immigrant and Latina/o Student Development Related to Schooling Outcomes in Early Education
Speakers: Angela Arzubiaga, Arizona State University and Eugene Garcia, Arizona State University
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