5-0360 TOWARD AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF (UN)ACCOUNTABILITY: RACE, HIGH-STAKES TESTING, AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PUBLIC POLICY

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Kysa Nygreen (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Amanda W Johnson PhD (Univ of Massachusetts Amherst)

Chairs: Amanda W Johnson PhD (Univ of Massachusetts Amherst)

Discussants: Edmund T Hamann (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Teresa L McCarty (Arizona State University)

10:15

Disposing Segregation: Race and Accountability As Neoliberal Governance

Amanda W Johnson PhD (Univ of Massachusetts Amherst)

10:30

The Legacy of the Racial Achievement Gap In New York City and the “Political Spectacle” of a Global Educational-Economic Crisis That Threatens to Eclipse It

Jill P Koyama (SUNY Buffalo)

10:45

Closing the Door On Social Mobility: School Reform and Minority Teachers In New York City

Christopher Lawrence (CUNY)

11:00

Race, Reintegration and Accountability:Ethnographic Narratives of Court-Involved Youth

Ragnhild Utheim (CUNY)

11:15

Competing Paradigms of Educational Justice and the Traces of Accountability In a Community-Based Popular Education Effort

Kysa Nygreen (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

11:30

Discussant

Teresa L McCarty (Arizona State University)

11:45

Discussant

Edmund T Hamann (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

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