EQUITY MATTERS

Registration, Coffee, Breakfast

Welcome and Introductions: Why Equity?

Jon Funabiki, Professor of Journalism, San Francisco State University; Executive Director, Renaissance Journalism

Sanjiv Rao, Senior Program Officer, Youth Opportunity and Learning, Ford Foundation

Opening Address:

Just the Facts: Texts and Contexts in Achievement Disparities and Education Debts

Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mapping Racial and Economic Education Disparities

Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education, Stanford University

Break

The Creation of Segregated Communities

Richard Rothstein, Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute

Lunch and Breakout Sessions

The following Equity Reporting Project Fellows will lead discussions on key educational equity issues:

• Alejandra Lagos, Univision News Network: Covering English Learners
• Zaidee Stavely, KQED, Impact of Urban Violence
• Kristina Rizga, Mother Jones, and Patrick Wall, Chalkbeat New York: Embedding in Public Schools

Beyond Test Scores: Reporting in High-Poverty Black and Latino Schools With Cultural Literacy

Kristina Rizga, Senior Education Reporter, Mother Jones Author, “Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph”

Interviewed by Jon Funabiki, Executive Director, Renaissance Journalism

The Making of “Failure Factories”

Cara Fitzpatrick, Education Reporter, Tampa Bay Times

Interviewed by LynNell Hancock                                    Director, Spencer Fellowship for Education Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Break

The Problem We All Live With: Racial Segregation in America’s Schools

Nikole Hannah-Jones, Investigative Reporter, The New York Times Magazine “The Problem We All Live With” from This American Life

Covering Inequality: A Conversation

Moderator: Keith Woods, Vice President for Diversity in News & Operations, NPR

Closing Remarks

Jon Funabiki, Executive Director, Renaissance Journalism

Networking Reception