Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, will chair a plenary session titled, “Demographic Shifts and Impacts on Education” at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Education (NAEd). The conference, which will focus on “The Changing Context of Education Research,” will be held in Washington D.C., Nov. 14-15.
“Immigrant children are the fastest growing sector of the U.S. child population,” said Suárez-Orozco, co-director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education at UCLA. “For the first time in U.S. history, our schools nation-wide are ‘minority-majority.’ Educating ever more diverse cohorts of students is a national imperative for citizenship, social cohesion, and for the economic vitality of our country moving forward. I am gratified that the National Academy of Education has convened this important plenary session.”
Founded in 1965, NAEd advances high quality education research and its use in policy formation and practice. The membership consists of U.S. and foreign associates who are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship related to education. From UCLA Education, professors Alexander Astin, Eva Baker, Louis Gomez, Gary Orfield and Mike Rose are elected members of the organization.
This story was originally published in Ampersand. the magazine of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
