Closing the achievement gap is probably the most critical issue in American education. While student success is the result of many factors working together, evidence suggests students of color are more successful when taught by teachers of color. Recently gathered data has also allowed researchers to examine the impacts of staff and administrators of color on student performance.
This conversation brings together two researchers, from different backgrounds, to explore the evidence and possible causal links for these impacts.
Please join us for this meeting of emerging policy-savvy teachers and education policy leaders.
Drinks and appetizers will be served.
Keynote Presenters:
Dr. Ken Meier, Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University & Member, National Academy of Public Administration
He also directs the Project for Equity, Representation and Governance, the Texas Educational Excellence Project, and the Carlos Cantu Hispanic Education and Opportunity Endowment. Dr. Meier is visiting CU Denver and will talk about his work, using an extensive Texas database, on outcomes for students of color. In the field of public administration, this is also known as “representative bureaucracy” – do the people who work in government (and in this case, schools) look like the community they serve, and what impact does that have?
Margarita Bianco, Associate Professor, School of Education and Human Development, CU Denver Her research in developing successful pipelines for teachers of color has earned her a two-year appointment as University of Colorado’s Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador, to serve as an advocate for K-12 and higher education, for scholarly approaches to teaching and learning, and for establishing environments that promote access and success from all sectors of the diverse population in Colorado and beyond. ill also She is the founder and executive director of Pathways2Teaching, a pre-collegiate program that encourages high school students of color to enter the teacher workforce.
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