2018 AERA Annual Meeting
Golden Anniversary Sessions
The year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of:
These anniversaries warrant interrogation as we, as researchers and practitioners, work to make sense of and interrupt the inequalities that circumscribe the dreams and possibilities of public education. Featured as part of the 2018 Annual Meeting program, the presidential sessions which commemorate these anniversaries forward innovative pedagogy, actively engage audiences, and present knowledge in alternative forms. The dates, times, locations and abstracts of these golden anniversary sessions follow. Mark your calendars!
SATURDAY, April 14, 8:15 to 10:15 am, New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton South The year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Bilingual Education Act (BEA). Passed in 1968, the BEA was initiated in response to the high dropout rate of low-income Spanish speaking students learning English as a second language. A half century later, language minority students still suffer under pervasive inequities in public education that warrant immediate redress. While the number of language minority students has dramatically increased across the United States, the bilingual/multicultural programs needed to build upon their linguistic and cultural repertoires remain absent in most school communities. Drawing upon empirical research and historical, political, theoretical, and practice perspectives, this session provides a comprehensive analysis of the BEA and forwards possibilities for re(imagining) the promise of the Act.
MONDAY, April 16, 10:35 am to 1:55 pm, New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Grand Ballroom Suite-West Ballroom
Through film, performance, and dialogue, this session will explore the historical significance of New York City’s community control movement in Harlem, East Harlem, Ocean-Hill Brownville, Bedford Stuyvesant, the Lower East Side, and the South Bronx in the 1960s. Scholars and community activists from the past and present will explore the long arc of intersectionality in New York City’s grassroots organizing for educational equity and justice and the city, union, and school system responses. Interwoven throughout will be stories from the classroom, school, district and neighborhoods touched by the community control movement and their relevance to organizing today.