LINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

The conference drew 168 participants from across California and the United States. The conference staff-Heather Morrison (conference coordinator) and Mónica Figueroa Landeros (UC LMRI) and Vivian Barrera (Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies)-helped insure a successful conference.
 

Russell Rumberger, Director UC LMRI	UC LMRI Conference Staff

This year's conference highlighted research that focused on the initial implementation of Proposition 227.  Because the Proposition was passed and implemented so quickly, there has been considerable uncertainty on how districts, schools, and teachers have responded to the initiative.  The conference brought together researchers who were funded by UC LMRI to examine the impacts of 227 along with other researchers who are investigating this issue.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED:

A panel of researchers (See photos below)-Eugene E. García, Julia E. Curry-Rodríguez, Sara Paredes, Betty Pazmino, Tom Stritikus (UC Berkeley), Kris Gutiérrez (UCLA), and Julie Maxwell-Jolly (UC Davis)-who presented comparative case studies that looked at district, school, and classroom responses to Proposition 227 in 16 school districts and 23 schools from throughout the state;
 

Panel of Researchers	Eugene E. Garcia

Presentations on two state-wide surveys on the impacts of 227, one by María Trejo (State Department of Education) and one by Professor David Ramírez (CSU Long Beach);

A research panel-Reynaldo Macías (UCLA)(see photo below), Cecilia Colombi and Barbara Goldman (UC Davis), and Olga Rubio (CSU Long Beach)-on teacher education issues in response to 227;
 

Reynaldo Macías	Patrick Manyak

A research panel-Patrick Manyak (USC)(see above photo), Kenji Hakuta (Stanford), and Robert Linquanti (WestED)-that examined how long it takes for English learners to learn English;
 

A keynote address by Jim Crawford, image to the right, a noted independent writer and lecturer on the politics of language;

A research and discussion panel-Terrence Wiley (CSU Long Beach), Melinda Melendez (Office of State Assembly Speaker Viaraigosa), Noni Reese (Pajero Valley Joint Unified School District), and Erminda García (San Franciso Unified School District)-that examined the impact of recent legislation on the education of English learners.

A dinner for Bilingual Fellowship graduate students and their advisors from three UC campuses-UC Davis, UCLA, and UC Santa Barbara-who were attending the UC LMRI conference, many for the first time.

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