Beyond Lip Service: Understanding, Promoting, & Quantifying Equity and Excellence in Urban Education Lecture

Lecture By Dr. Donna Ford, Vanderbilt University. This presentation focuses on barriers to equity and excellence in urban education. Key issues are addressed, along with recommendations to close achievement gaps, decrease under-representation in gifted education, and decrease over-representation in special education and discipline. Methods to quantify and set equity goals are introduced. Readings and recommendations are provided. RSVP is Required at Sign-Up Page (link).

Donna Y. Ford, PhD, is Professor of Education and Human Development and Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair at Vanderbilt University. She is the former Betts Chair of Education & Human Development, and currently holds a joint appointment in the Department of Special Education and Department of Teaching and Learning. Dr. Ford has been a Professor of Special Education at the Ohio State University, an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Virginia, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky.  \

Professor Ford conducts research primarily in gifted education and multicultural/urban education, and is the author/co-author of several books, including Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education (2013), Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students(1996, 2010), Multicultural Gifted Education (1999, 2011), Gifted and advanced Black Students in School: An Anthology of Critical Works (2011), In Search of the Dream: Designing Schools and Classrooms that Work for High Potential Students from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds (2004), Diverse Learners with Exceptionalities: Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Inclusive Classroom (2008), and Teaching Culturally Diverse Gifted Students(2005). 

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