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Our 2014 conference, held last Spring in Philadelphia, focused on the reasons behind varying educational outcomes for students of different races and discuss possible solutions to the problem. The goal of the conference was to directly engage the issue mobilizing most school reform movements, the disparity of educational outcomes between white students and racial minorities, and bluntly discuss the causes of this phenomenon and debate the efficacy of different policies aimed at combating this injustice.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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9:00am-9:20am
Breakfast (Davis Student Union)


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9:30am-9:45am
Introduction

Kendra Radkowski

Conference Co-Director



9:45am-11:00am
Keynote Panel: 
"Achievement Gap or Education Debt"


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Dr. Camika Royal

Education Historian and Instructor and Arcadia University

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Kia Hinton
Board Member, Action United



11:15am-12:45pm
"Student Engagement, Voice, and Finding Meaning Through Education"


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Nakisha Hobbs
Founder of Village Leadership Academy in Chicago

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Kanya Balakrishna
The Future Project, New York, NY

Also including student representatives from
TeenSharp and Philadelphia Student Union



11:15am-12:45pm
"Achievement Gap or Empathy Gap?:
Cultural Values and the Opportunity to Succeed
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Jermyn Shannon El
Founder of the Duval Urban Debate League in
Jacksonville, FL

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Miriam Archibong
Founder of Taking Actions to Overcome Obstacles



1:00pm -2:00pm
Lunch and Table Discussions

Numerous Professional and Graduate Students Representing Fels, Law, SP2, GSE, Wharton, and other Penn Graduate and Professional Schools on topics related to the conference.

Alternative:
Research Presentation by Research for Action


2:10pm-2:45pm
Afternoon Keynote


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Anthony Hardy Williams
Pennsylvania State Senator





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3:00pm-4:30pm
"A Community Divided
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Sylvia Sims
Commissioner on the Philadelphia School Reform Commission

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Bernex Richardson

Dean of School Culture at Achievement First Apollo Charter School

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Dr. John Puckett
Professor of Education,
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education




3:00pm-4:30pm
"The Fight for Credibility: Whose Voice Matters in the Education Conversation?"  

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Dr. Delvin Dinkins
Head of Upper School at Episcopal Academy

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Andy Smarick
Bellweather Education and Former Deputy Comm. of NJ Dept. of Ed.

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Tremaine Johnson
Former Executive Director of Teach For America’s Greater Philadelphia Region

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