Co-Chairs:     Paul E. Green, Columbia University
Rodney Hopson, University of Virginia

Presentation 1:

Social, economic, and political realities for persons
of color: forty years of Brown I and counting

Paul E. Green, Columbia University, Carol Camp Yeakey, University of Virginia, Tracey Reed, Ohio University, James Allen Kendrick, Jeanita Richardson, and Rodney Hopson, University of Virginia.

Presentation 2:

An analysis of pollution in racial minority communities:   Environmental justice movement in the 21st century

Jeanita Richardson, University of Virginia, Carol Camp Yeakey, University of Virginia

Presentation 3:

Endangering affirmative action and educational opportunity social policy:   A trend in recent years

Tracey Reed, Ohio University, James Allen
Kendrick, University of Virginia, Paul E. Green, Columbia University

Presentation 4:

Language and social policy,

Rodney Hopson, University of Virginia, Paul E. Green, Columbia University, Carol Camp Yeakey, University of Virginia

Chair:     Rodney Hopson, University of Virginia

Presentation 1:

Preventing the early onset of substance use in ethnic minority communities:   Implications for program design and evaluation

Katrina Bledso, Claremont Graduate School

Presentation 2:

The arts as a pedagogical tool in teaching anti-racism, diversity, and multiculturalism:   A quantitative and qualitative evaluation model

Patricia Stow Bolea, University of Louisville

Presentation 3:

Evaluating a minority arts and sciences program for university students

Grace Taylor, Heather Boylan, Angela Johnson, Gregory Diggs, Alphonse Keasley, University of Colorado

Elena T. Reigadas, The Claremont Graduate School, and Silvia J. Santos, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Chair:     Silvia J. Santos, California State University

Presentation 1:

Evaluation of a california bilingual teacher
education program

Lorenza Arengo, University of Southern California

Presentation 2:

Methodological issues in assessing language minority students

Carolyn Huie Hofstetter and Jamal Abedi,
University of California, Los Angeles

Presentation 3:

Evaluating community-based interventions in latino communities:   Challenges and alternatives

Ana M. Navarro, University of California, San Diego

Chair:     Rodney Hopson, University of Virginia

Presentation 1:

Race-ing to know:   Race and the construction of knowledge in evaluation studies

Caitlin Howley-Rowe, Appalachia Educational Laboratory

Presentation 2:

Microenterprise development in kenya:   Reflections on evaluator position while assessing program effects

Tristi C. Nichols, Cornell University

Presentation 3:

Race matters (but) gender rules:   constructing masculinities and evaluating child care programs

James Earl Davis, University of Delaware

Donna Durant Atkinson, Birch & Davis Associates, Inc., Silver Springs, MD

Table 25

The beliefs of the constituents of malcolm x academy, an african-centered school, on what makes it effective in educating african-american children

Tonikiaa Orange, University of Pittsburgh

Table 26
Do different methods lead to different findings?   Examining teaching effectiveness in the evaluation of a summer preparation program for minority students

Edith Juliana Cisneros C., University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign