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    Keynote Address—Premilla Nadasen, Barnard College
    (2016-03-04) Nadasen, Premilla
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    Plenary Session - Keynote Speaker
    (2015-03-06) Badruddoja, Roksana
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    People Create Change: Why Public Policy, Government and a Liberal Arts Education Matter in the Fight Against Inequality
    (2014-11-14) White, Andrew
    Idealism and pragmatism meet in the decades-long transformation of New York City’s neighborhoods, social welfare and human services. From affordable housing and community development to public health, public assistance and child welfare, the last 30 years have seen an elaborate dance that includes working class and low-income New Yorkers along with public policy makers—often working together, in creative tension. The results have been remarkable, if incomplete, despite structural forces that make progress invariably difficult. We know with certainty that public policy, government and the nonprofit sector all matter a great deal when it comes to addressing severe poverty and reducing the traumas and turmoil that economic poverty creates in people’s lives. And we know from deep experience that the liberal arts education of several generations of government and nonprofit leaders and staff has shaped this work, often for the better.
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    Achievement Gaps Arise from Opportunity Gaps
    (2014-11-14) Carter, Prudence L.
    The ideas of “achievement gap” and “test score gap” have dominated policy discussions over the past two decades about American youths’ overall educational well-being. Meanwhile, scant attention has been paid to a gap that is even more at odds with American ideals: the opportunity gap—a divide that exposes the wide chasm of resources and social inequality in our society. The latter constitute the inputs that shape the outputs of achievement and mobility. In this talk, I will examine what I call the “ecology of opportunity” (or lack thereof) and offer some insights, based on evidence-based research, about not only the challenges embedded in U.S. educational institutions but also the supports and resources that would create deep and substantial improvements in student learning and achievement.