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The third César Chávez
Education Conference will be held March 28-29 at California State
University, Fresno featuring Dr. Barbara Flores, president of the
National Association for Bilingual Education, and civil rights leader
Dr. Gary Orfield.
The Kremen School of Education and Human Development presents the event
as part of Fresno State’s observance of the César Chávez Day of Service
Learning holiday March 31, the birthday of the late United Farm Workers
union founder. The campus will be closed that day.
Other campus activities planned for the week prior to the holiday
include the annual garlanding of the Chávez statue in the Peace Garden
just north of the Henry Madden Library.
The conference will be held in McLane Hall Room 121 from 4 to 7 p.m.
March 28 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 29. It is free and open to the
public with free parking available in Lots K, L and M. On-site
registration is available.
Flores, an education professor at California State University, San
Bernardino, will deliver the keynote address at 4 p.m. March 28. She
coauthored “Reading in a Bilingual Classroom: Literacy and Biliteracy,
The Intellectual Presence of the Deficit View of Spanish Speaking
Children in the Educational Literature during the 20th Century.”
Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of
California, Los Angeles, will speak at 9 a.m. March 29. He has written
about racial diversity in public schools and the impact of No Child Left
Behind on education.
Parents, students, educators, policymakers, community leaders and
researchers attending the conference engage in critical discussion of
educational reform incorporating equity, democracy, academic excellence
and social justice, said Dr. Laura Alamillo, an assistant professor in
the Literacy and Early Education Department and conference co-chair.
Workshops cover those issues and also parents’ rights, innovative
practices that promote cultural literacy, student voice in education and
immigrant students.
The conference is co-sponsored by the California Reading and Literature
Project, San Joaquin Valley Writing Project, Teachers for Social
Justice, Cineculture, Fresno Teachers Association and Fresno State
student organizations Trabajadores de la Raza and Associated Students
Inc.
For information, contact Alamillo at 559.278.0280 or e-mail
lalamillo@csufresno.edu, or Dr. Steven Hart at 559.278.0319.
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