[lg policy] Kenji Hakuta to address education of language minority students at AERA's Brown Lecture

[Harold Schiffman]

Kenji Hakuta to address education of language minority students at
AERA's Brown Lecture
Posted On: September 30, 2010 - 4:30am

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 30, 2010—Kenji Hakuta, a Stanford
University scholar who strives to improve education opportunities for
language minority students, will deliver the Seventh Annual Brown
Lecture in Education Research here next month. Hosted by the American
Educational Research Association (AERA), this lecture commemorates the
historic Brown v. Board of Education decision of the U.S. Supreme
Court and features significant scholarship that advances equality and
equity in education.

The 2010 Brown Lecture, "Educating Language Minority Students and
Affirming Their Equal Rights: Research and Practical Perspectives,"
will be presented on Thursday, October 28, at 6:00 p.m. in the Ronald
Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. A
reception will follow.

Hakuta's remarks will focus on the 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision,
Lau v. Nichols, which involved equal educational opportunities for
nearly 1,800 Chinese students in the San Francisco Unified School
District. Ever since that decision, the nation's education system has
struggled with how to address the question of equal educational
opportunity for English language learners. Debates in Congress,
states, and local districts, as well as in the courts, have been
juxtaposed with various reform efforts focused on teachers, standards,
instruction, assessment, accountability, and values.

As a senior researcher, Hakuta will also share his perspectives on the
role played by academic knowledge in the debates over policy and
practice during the time span, from Lau v. Nichols to the present,
including such issues as ESEA Reauthorization and the Common Core
Standards.

Hakuta, the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education in Stanford's School
of Education, has concentrated his research and teaching on
bilingualism and second language acquisition, education policy and
practice, and statistics. A prolific scholar and scientific leader, he
chaired the National Research Council committee that issued the report
"Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research
Agenda." He also served as co-chair and principal investigator of a
panel initiated by AERA and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race
and Ethnicity at Stanford University examining research at the
intersection of race and higher education. That initiative yielded the
book Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in
Colleges and Universities, which was cited in the U.S. Supreme Court
decision on the University of Michigan Law School case on the use of a
race-conscious admissions policy.

Hakuta, who holds a Ph.D. degree in experimental psychology from
Harvard University, has served on the Stanford faculty since 1989,
with a stint from 2003 to 2006 as the founding dean of the School of
Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California,
Merced. He is an elected Member of the National Academy of Education,
and is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(Linguistics and Language Sciences).

Hakuta was selected this spring by the 2010 Brown Lecture Selection
Committee, chaired by William H. Watkins, who also chairs AERA's
Social Justice Action Committee (SJAC). Other Selection Committee
members were Angela E. Arzubiaga, a Member of the AERA Committee on
Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education; David J.
Connor, SJAC Committee Member; Carol D. Lee, then AERA President; Kris
D. Gutiérrez, now AERA President; Felice J. Levine, AERA Executive
Director; and George L. Wimberly, AERA Director of Social Justice and
Professional Development.

The Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research illuminates the
important role of research in advancing the understanding of equality
and equity in education. The Lectureship was inaugurated in 2004 to
commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education
decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court took scientific research
into account in issuing its landmark ruling. Each year a distinguished
scholar notable for producing significant research related to equality
in education is invited to give this public lecture in Washington,
D.C.

Edmund W. Gordon, Director of the Institute of Urban and Minority
Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, delivered the
inaugural Brown Lecture. Other Lecturers include Claude M. Steele,
Columbia University; Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University;
Margaret Beale Spencer, University of Chicago; Stephen W. Raudenbush,
University of Chicago; and Luis C. Moll, The University of Arizona.

Source: American Educational Research Association

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