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October 20, 2009

School of Education presents workshop on closing achievement gap

Elementary and secondary schools across the country are struggling to develop innovative ways of addressing a chronic achievement gap among their students. Dominican University’s School of Education will tackle this important topic during a two-day workshop titled “Equity, Excellence, Access: Closing the Achievement Gap” on Thursday, October 22 and Friday, October 23.

The workshop offers educators the opportunity to hear representatives from high-achieving, high-poverty school districts that have developed promising practices for closing the achievement gap, and to consider questions and potential solutions to this nationwide crisis.

Keynote speakers will include Dr. James Banks, a pioneer of multicultural education in the United States; Dr. Glenn “Max” McGee, president of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy; and Dr. Festus Obiakor, professor in the Department of Exceptional Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Dr. Banks is the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor of Diversity Studies and founding director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received the inaugural American Educational Research Association’s Social Justice Award in 2004. Dr. McGee is chairman of the Golden Apple Foundation and a former state school superintendent. Dr. Obiakor is co-editor of several scholarly journals including Teacher Education and Special Education and Multicultural Learning and Teaching and the author of It Even Happens in “Good” Schools: Responding to Cultural Diversity in Today’s Classroom.

The fee for this conference is $125, including lunch both days. For more information on the conference, please contact Dominican University’s School of Education at (708) 524-6923.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as a doctoral degree in library and information science. In the 2010 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top 20 of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “Great School at a Great Price.”