Experience
the San Antonio Summit, Texas event. The first of such events.
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a short Flash presentation. 
Listen to “Latino and African-American Communities Leading School Reform,” Classnotes Podast, with Rosana Rodríguez, Ph.D., director of development at IDRA, and Bradley Scott, Ph.D., director of the IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity. They discuss an online launch kit that IDRA is developing to help communities take on a process of local cross-sector, multicultural dialogue and action to improve their own neighborhood public schools for all children.
Listen to “The Need for Cross-Race, Cross-Sector Dialogues,” Classnotes Podcast, with Dr. Rosana Rodríguez, Frances Guzmán and Dr. Bradley Scott, director of the IDRA South Central Collaborative for Equity. Learn how this cross-sector and multiracial dialogue approach is creating lasting partnerships between African American and Latino communities, using education as common ground for collaboration.
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Where the Next Schools Will be Built
Video
Mr. Albert Kauffman, Senior Legal and Policy Advocate Associate, The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University,
Tyler Blueprint Dialogue participant [01:08 min]
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Dallas Community Education Centers
Video
Dr. Wright Lassiter, Jr., President, El Centro College,
Dallas Blueprint Dialogue participant [01:31 min]
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Finding Ways to Collaborate
Video
Mr. James A. Ferg-Cadima, Legislative Staff Attorney, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund,
Houston Blueprint Dialogue participant
[01:07 min]
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Our
Task Today
Dial-up Network High Speed
Dr. María "Cuca" Robledo Montecel, IDRA Executive Director,
San Antonio Summit Participant [00:38 min] |
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Brown
vs. Board of Education
Dial-up Network High
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Cheryl Brown Henderson
The Brown Foundation for Educational Equity and Research ,
San Antonio Summit Participant [00:31 min] |
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The
Latino Experience
Dial-up Network High Speed
Deborah Dandridge, Commissioner
Brown vs. Board 50th Anniversary Commission,
San Antonio Summit Participant [00:13 min] |
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Mendez
was a Precursor to Brown
Dial-up Network High Speed
Albert Kauffman, Civil Rights Project,
Harvard University,
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Student Voices
Mendez and Brown ~ Youth Picture Pathways to Graduation
With the civil rights promises of Mendez vs. Westminster and Brown vs. Board of Education as a backdrop, IDRA and Critical Exposure worked with a group of Canton high school students as they took up 35 millimeter cameras to reflect on barriers and opportunities for building pathways to high school graduation and college in Canton, Mississippi.
See their perspectives: Movie format or PowerPoint format
Student Visions, Student Voices
IDRA and Critical Exposure worked with local students in Albuquerque to learn about the landmark cases and to photograph their school realities in the context of Mendez and Brown. Here is some of what students captured and shared.
See their insights: PowerPoint format
“A Tale of Two Centrals”
Brandon Love, a student at Central High School in Little Rock who participated with other students in the community dialogue, shared his story.
Remarks
Texas Comments
See comments from the Texas Mendez and Brown Blueprint Dialogues for Action (Dallas, Houston and Tyler)
Albuquerque Comments
See comments from Albuquerque's Coalition-Building for Education Blueprint Dialogues for Action
Little Rock Comments
See comments from Little Rock's Coalition-Building for Education Blueprint Dialogues for Action
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