Center for Child and Family Well-being 2006-2007 Annual Conference Dilemmas in American Education: The Struggle for Equity and Inclusion April 12th and 13th, 2007 at Bryn Mawr College - Thomas Great Hall Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Keynote Address 9:00 a.m. Friday Gary Orfield, PhD Segregated and Unequal: Civil Rights and Education Reform in Metropolitan Schools
Gary Orfield is Professor of Education and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Co-Founder and Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard, an initiative that is developing and publishing a new generation of research on multiracial civil rights issues. Professor Orfield is interested in the study of civil rights, education policy, urban policy, and minority opportunity and much of his research and work has focused on the development and implementation of social policy, with a central emphasis on the impact of policy on equal opportunity for success in American society. In addition to his scholarly work, Orfield has been involved with development of governmental policy, has served as a court-appointed expert in school desegregation cases in St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Little Rock, and has been called to give testimony in civil rights suits by the U.S. Department of Justice and many civil rights, legal services, and educational organizations. Orefield also has participated as an expert witness in the University of Michigan Supreme Court case which upheld the policy of affirmative action in 2003 and has been called to give testimony in civil rights suits by the United States Department of Justice and many civil rights, legal services, and educational organizations. In 1997, Orfield was awarded the American Political Science Association's Charles Merriam Award for his "contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research." A native Minnesotan, Orfield received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Keynote Address Panelist Discussion 10:45 to 12:00 5 ceu's are associated with full day attendance.
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