Toward a High-Quality Education for All Students: Contemporary Questions for Law and Policy
Na’ilah Suad Nasir, president of the Spencer Foundation, will deliver the keynote address at the launch of the Education Rights Institute. President Jim Ryan ’92, Dean Risa Goluboff and Education Rights Institute inaugural director Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson will also deliver remarks. Two panels — on educational opportunity gaps and potential reforms to close them — will feature leading experts, scholars and advocates in the field, including U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan ’97, who represents Virginia’s 4th District, and Stanford University professor Sean Reardon.
Box lunches will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis at 12:45 p.m. Parking will be available in the D2 and D3 lots. A reception will take place following the final panel.
Event Details
1 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks
- Risa Goluboff, Dean, Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and Professor of History, University of Virginia School of Law
- James E. Ryan ’92, President, University of Virginia
- Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Inaugural Director, Education Rights Institute; Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law
Keynote Address
Na’ilah Suad Nasir, President, Spencer Foundation
Q&A moderated by Kimberly Jenkins Robinson
2:15-3:35 p.m.
Panel 1: Understanding Educational Opportunity Gaps
Video introduction by Linda Darling-Hammond, President and CEO, Learning Policy Institute
Panelists
- Prudence Carter, Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology, Brown University
- Anindya Kundu, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Florida International University
- Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology;
Director, Stanford Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program in Quantitative Education Policy Analysis; Stanford University - Marguerite Roza, Research Professor; Director, Edunomics Lab; Georgetown University
- Moderator: Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Inaugural Director, Education Rights Institute; Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law
3:45-5:05 p.m.
Panel 2: Law and Policy Reforms for Educational Opportunity Gaps
Video introduction by Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard Law School
Panelists
- Kristine Bowman, Associate Dean, Academic and Student Affairs; Professor of Education Policy; Michigan State University
- Jennifer McClellan ’97, U.S. Representative, 4th District of Virginia
- Mark Rosenbaum, Director, Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law
- Joshua Weishart, Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law
- Moderator: Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Inaugural Director, Education Rights Institute; Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law