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The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at
UCLA announces its seventh annual conference on the challenges of
dropout rates in our nation's public schools. "The Dropout Crisis
in the Northwest: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in All
Communities with Special Focus on American Indian and Alaska Native
Students," will take place on Friday, May 30, 2008, from 8:30AM
- 4:30PM at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre on the University of Washington
campus.
With emphasis placed on the states of Alaska,
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, the conference seeks
to convene students, activists, practitioners, community leaders,
policymakers, and researchers. Conference goals include identifying
and discussing the alarming trends and socioeconomic costs of the
school dropout crisis in the Northwest; effective models and
interventions for improving the graduation rate; issues related to
systems of accountability; and the policymaking required to improve
the graduation rate among the Northwest's most underserved
populations, including African Americans, American Indians,
Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, and Latinos.
For more information about The Dropout Crisis Conference,
please contact Daniel Liou at dnyliou@ucla.edu.
Press release to follow.
Organized by
The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles
Co-Sponsored by
Education Week
Pennsylvania State University: The Center for the Study of Leadership in American Indian Education
University of Washington: College of Education, The Diversity Research Institute, The Institute for the Study of Ethnicity (WISER), Race and Sexuality, Native American Students in Advanced Academia (NASAA), and The Office of Minority Affairs
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) |
