Latino Education Summit: Shaping Our Future

Date: Saturday, February 11, 2012

Time: 8:30am – 1pm

Location: Arturo Velasquez Institute, 2800 S. Western, Chicago, IL 60608

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Frances Contreras

Associate Professor and Director of the University of Washington’s Higher Education Program.  Co-authored with Patricia Gándara, The Latino Education Crisis.  The Consequences of Failed Social Policies.

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Breakout sessions where attendees will respond to the Latino Policy Forum’s preliminary report developed from an education advisory committee and other community stakeholders on building a collective Latino-specific K-12 education agenda.

“Never before have we been faced with a population group on the verge of becoming the majority in significant portions of the country that is also the lowest performing academically.  And never before has the economic structure been less forgiving to the undereducated,”  Patricia Gándara and Frances Contreras (2009) The Latino Education Crisis.  The Consequences of Failed Social Policies.

For more information, contact Rebecca Vonderlack-Navarro, PhD, at: rvnavarro@latinopolicyforum.org