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Past Convenings: 1999-1996 As part of our effort to support an infrastructure of collaboration between researchers, lawyers and advocates, we believe in the importance for CRP to conduct conferences and trainings. Many of our conferences are envisioned to foster debate and have drawn experts from several distinct areas, commissioned for further research by CRP. Our convenings from 1999 through 1996 included:
December 8, 1998. New York Co-sponsored with Teachers College and Columbia Law School, this conference had several aims: (1) to present and examine the latest research pertaining to testing and its implications for poor and minority students; (2) to generate insights about how tests might be constructively used to advance equity in education, and (3) to disseminate this information to policymakers and the wider public. Strategy Session on Race and Public Education November 20 to 21, 1998. Cambridge, Massachusetts Co-sponsored with the Applied Research Center. Third Annual Summit on Tracking and the Miseducation of Children November 14 to 15, 1998. Atlanta, Georgia Co-sponsored with the Coalition of Alabamians Reforming Education the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic & Social Justice, NAACP--Georgia, Spelman College, and the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement. Rethinking Title I: Policy, Enforcement, and Educational Benefits September 18, 1998. Washington, D.C. The Civil Rights Project and the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights sponsored a specially convened forum on the impact of the 1994 reforms of Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act. This program examined whether and how these important federal education reforms are being implemented in schools with high concentrations of poor and minority students.
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