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Cultural issues in education, society focus of conference

CHAMPAIGN,Ill. – The role of culture in educational and social interventions will be the focus of a conference in Chicago to be hosted by the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

“Repositioning Culture in Evaluation and Assessment” will be the theme of the conference, to be held April 21-23.

The meeting is the inaugural conference for the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment, which is a unit in the college.

The primary mission of the 2-year-old center is to address the vital need for policy-relevant research that explores the cultural and contextual dimensions of social and educational interventions.

Keynote speakers for the conference will be Rodney Hopson, of Duquesne University, a past president of the American Evaluation Association; Eric Jolly, the president of the Science Museum of Minnesota; and Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo, the director of the School Research Center and the Laboratory of Educational Assessment, Research and Innovation at the University of Colorado-Denver.

Invited panelists: Jennifer Greene, U. of I., and Karen Kirkhart, of Syracuse University, both past presidents of the American Evaluation Association; and Gloria Ladson-Billings, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Carol Lee, of Northwestern University, who are past presidents of the American Educational Research Association.

The conference will be at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., and the Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe St.

Online registration, the program and information about fees and accommodations are on the conference website: education.illinois.edu/CREA/conference/registration. Registration must be made in advance; on-site registration will not be available.

Because the conference dates overlap with another major conference in Chicago, participants who need hotel accommodations are advised to reserve them early.

CREA web site: : http://education.illinois.edu/crea

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