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Chairs: William G. Tierney, University of Southern California; Barbara Schneider, Michigan State University; Felice J. Levine, American Educational Research Association
Guadalupe Valdes will address a key aspect of the equity and opportunity challenge in the American context: The future education of English Language Learners (ELLs). Valdes will focus on language itself and the often controversial questions that surround language. Further, she will discuss the difficulties of “getting language right” in the crafting of English Language Proficiency Development Standards, the fundamental component of all ELL state policies.
Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 pm Place: Hilton Union Square, Lobby Level - Plaza A
A native of Nogales, Mexico, and a former elementary and middle school teacher, Claudio Sanchez focuses on the “three p’s” of education reform: politics, policy and pedagogy. He has reported recently on Common Core, the falsifying of test scores, and the Pell Grant recipient graduation rates. In this session, Sanchez will discuss the challenges facing low-income students and educators, at all levels of education, in today’s America.
Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 10:35 am - 12:05 pm Place: Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 8 Presenter: John Q. Easton, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education Discussants: Anthony S. Bryk, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Catherine Snow, Harvard University; Susanna Loeb, Stanford University
Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 2:15 - 3:45 pm Place: Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 4 Chair: James A. Banks, University of Washington; Participants: Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Prudence L. Carter, Stanford University; Lois Weis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College; Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University
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Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 2:15 - 3:45 pm Place: Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 7
Presenter: Jack Buckley, Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
Discussants: Susan M. Dynarski, University of Michigan; Jane Hannaway, American Institutes of Research; Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University
Time: Sun, Apr 28, 4:05 - 6:05 pm
Place: Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 1 Chair: William Cope, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Participants: John M. Willinsky, Stanford University; Diane Harley, University of California, Berkeley; Joan Ferrini-Mundy, National Science Foundation; Alison Mudditt, University of California Press; Felice J. Levine, American Educational Research Association
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Today’s films include: Waiting for Superman, The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, The Lottery, and Bully.
Ignite presentations, like Pecha Kucha, are short talks accompanied by automatically timed slides, 20 slides of 15 seconds each (5 minutes total). The point of Ignite presentations is to present an idea about some topic—in this case, the conference theme—in an engaging, concise way.
Watch educational researchers tackle the theme “Nine Perspectives on Poverty” today, 2:15 – 3:45 pm, in Hilton Union Square, Lobby Level - Plaza A.
AERA ED Talks enable education researchers to use the TEDx format for “ideas worth spreading.” Presenters will address the conference theme or some other compelling aspect of the practice of education research. Attend “Poverty and Technology, Teaching, Diversity, and Identity” today, 4:05 - 5:35 pm, in Hilton Union Square, Lobby Level - Plaza A.