LINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

All Conference Programs are in PDF

• Preparing 'Highly Qualified' Teachers of English Learners
• Keynote Speakers: Aida Walqui and Russell Rumberger, Reynaldo Macias, Richard Duran

• Related: Conference Event Page (includes 2009 slideshow)

• California's Proposition 227: 10 Years Later
• (Restrictive Language Policies and Educational Outcomes for English Learners: 10 Years After Proposition 227)
• Keynote Speakers: Alan Bersin and Carlos Garcia

• Related: Collection of commissioned papers presented at the 2008 conference currently in press with Teachers College Press.

• Immigrants, Education, and Language
• Keynote Speakers: Norma Gonzalez and Peter Roos

• Related: The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States, co-edited by Terrence G. Wiley, Jin Sook Lee, and Russell Rumberger (Multilingual Matters, in press). A collection of a number of papers presented at the 2007 conference.

• English Learners and Higher Education
• Keynote Speakers: Linda Harklau and Robin Scarcella

• Language Rights and the Education of English Learners
• Keynote Speakers: Rachel Moran and Harold F. Schiffman

• Family Literacy and English Learners
• Keynote Speakers: Concha Delgado-Gaitan and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

• The Assessment of English Learners: Implications for Teaching, Research, and Policy
• Keynote Speakers: David Berliner and Charlene Rivera

• Rethinking the Teaching Profession for English Learners
• Keynote Speakers: Guadalupe Valdés and Lily Wong Fillmore

• Developing (Bi-)-Literacy
• Keynote Speakers: Ron Schmidt and Luis Moll

• School Reform and the Teaching of English Language Learners
• Keynote Speakers: Walter Secada and Catherine Snow

• The Schooling of English Language Learners in the Post 227 Era
• Keynote Speaker: Jim Crawford

• From Policy to Pedagogy
• Keynote Speakers: Eugene García, Rosalía Salinas and Fred Genesee

• Bridging Elementary, Secondary and Higher Education: Access, Opportunity and Achievement

• Immigration and Education

• Changing Schools for Changing Students

• Teacher Preparation and Enhancement in Teaching Language Minority Students: Practice, Policy & Research

• Language Minority Literacy Roundtable

• Research for the 1990s

• Policy and Research Perspectives on Linguistic Minority Education

• Schooling Language Minority Youth

• Schooling Language Minority Youth

• Schooling Language Minority Youth