First Triennial Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration a Success!
CLASE hosted the first triennial Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education October 26-28, 2009. This national research and policy conference, co-sponsored by the National Latino Educational Research Agenda Project, focused on issues of best practices, policy, and research related to the Latino educational achievement gap, immigration and education, and related topics. Over 330 participants attended from across the country; featured presenters included Latina educational activist Sylvia Mendez as well as noted educational researchers Luis Moll (University of Arizona), Alejandro Portes (Princeton), and Angela Valenzuela (UT-Austin). Keynote videos are being prepared, and additional information and archived presentations will be available on theTo watch Alejandro Portes’s keynote (“Dreams Fulfilled and Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation”) on the streaming server,
To watch Sylvia Mendez’s keynote (“My Legacy: Mendez vs. Westminster”),
To watch Angela Valenzuela’s keynote (“Teacher Quality and Latino/a Youth: Building a National Advocacy Imperative for Educational Reform”),
To watch Luis Moll’s keynote (“Education as Cultural Processes: Mobilizing Knowledge, Language, and Educational Practices”),