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Special Education Programs at the University of Minnesota is hosting a free event for anyone that is interested, Perspectives on Racial Disproportionality in Special Education: A Four-Part Series. The flyer for the first presentation of the series is below. For this first presentation, we will not be able to post a recording publicly, but will be able to share a private link to a recording to those who register for the event but are unable to attend. The registration link includes an opportunity to submit questions or comments that we'll be accumulating to address as time allows with individual presenters and/or include as part of the culminating panel discussion in April.
LeAnne Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor
Coordinator for Special Education Programs
Department of Educational Psychology / University of Minnesota
email: leannej@umn.edu / phone: (612) 626-3457
View this message on the web.
Perspectives on Racial Disproportionality in Special Education: A Four-Part Series
What is Required to Achieve Equity in Special Education?Examining the Potentials and Pitfalls of Legally Mandated Equity at the Intersection of Race and DisabilityDr. Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides
Assistant Professor of special education
City University of New York—Hunter College
Join the special education program for the first in a series of talks on Perspectives on Racial Disproportionality in Special Education.Wednesday, January 27Schedule of events (all times Central)
RSVP for Zoom Link
In this talk, Dr. Kramarczuk Voulgarides will speak about how policy compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) relates to educator's efforts to achieve racial equity in special education outcomes. Using empirical evidence, she will discuss how policy compliance mechanisms can work to either disrupt patterns of racial inequity or serve to reinforce them. She will also discuss emerging insights from her current research that indicates there is a disjuncture between what educators see as necessary to achieve racial equity and what IDEA mandates require of them when addressing racial inequity in special education outcomes. (Resources are listed at the bottom of this email.)
About the speaker
Dr. Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides is an assistant professor of special education at the City University of New York—Hunter College. She received her PhD from New York University in sociology of education. She examines how equity, access, and opportunity are constructed in policy and law and how the socio-cultural contexts of schools relate to equity.
The Perspectives on Racial Disproportionality in Special Education Series is hosted by the special education program in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Upcoming speakers in the series
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Special Education Programs at the University of Minnesota
Special Education Programs at the University of Minnesota is hosting a free event for anyone that is interested, Perspectives on Racial Disproportionality in Special Education: A Four-Part Series. The flyer for the first presentation of the series is below. For this first presentation, we will not be able to post a recording publicly, but will be able to share a private link to a recording to those who register for the event but are unable to attend. The registration link includes an opportunity to submit questions or comments that we'll be accumulating to address as time allows with individual presenters and/or include as part of the culminating panel discussion in April.
LeAnne Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor
Coordinator for Special Education Programs
Department of Educational Psychology / University of Minnesota
email: leannej@umn.edu / phone: (612) 626-3457
View this message on the web.
Perspectives on Racial Disproportionality in Special Education: A Four-Part Series
What is Required to Achieve Equity in Special Education?Examining the Potentials and Pitfalls of Legally Mandated Equity at the Intersection of Race and DisabilityDr. Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides
Assistant Professor of special education
City University of New York—Hunter College
Join the special education program for the first in a series of talks on Perspectives on Racial Disproportionality in Special Education.Wednesday, January 27Schedule of events (all times Central)
- 3 to 3:45 pm: Presentation
- 3:45 to 4 pm: Special education faculty led Q&A
RSVP for Zoom Link
In this talk, Dr. Kramarczuk Voulgarides will speak about how policy compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) relates to educator's efforts to achieve racial equity in special education outcomes. Using empirical evidence, she will discuss how policy compliance mechanisms can work to either disrupt patterns of racial inequity or serve to reinforce them. She will also discuss emerging insights from her current research that indicates there is a disjuncture between what educators see as necessary to achieve racial equity and what IDEA mandates require of them when addressing racial inequity in special education outcomes. (Resources are listed at the bottom of this email.)
About the speaker
Dr. Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides is an assistant professor of special education at the City University of New York—Hunter College. She received her PhD from New York University in sociology of education. She examines how equity, access, and opportunity are constructed in policy and law and how the socio-cultural contexts of schools relate to equity.
The Perspectives on Racial Disproportionality in Special Education Series is hosted by the special education program in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Upcoming speakers in the series
- Feb. 18, 3 to 4:30 pm, CST: Alfredo Artiles, professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
- March 31, 3 to 4:30 pm, CST: Aydin Bal, professor, Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- April 16, 11 am to 12:15 pm, CST: Panel discussion: Catherine Kramarczuk Vougaides, Alfredo Artiles, Aydin Bal, and school psychology Professor Amanda Sullivan
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For more information, contact Barbara Jo Stahl at bjstahl@stthomas.edu or (651) 962-4398.
Scholarships and Alumni Discount are available. Visit: https://education.stthomas.edu/admissionsandaid/tuition/scholarships/
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