Math & Social Justice 2008 Confab UPDATE: Joan Countryman- Keynoter!

[radicalmath]

Creating Balance in an Unjust World
Conference on Math Education & Social Justice

http://www.radicalmath.org/conference

April 4 - 6, 2008 · Brooklyn, NY
Long Island University, Downtown Brooklyn Campus
Keynote Speaker Announced

Joan Countryman

Joan Countryman is the former Head of Lincoln School in Providence,
Rhode Island, and served as Assistant Head for Academic Planning and
Director of Studies at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia,
where she taught mathematics from 1970 to 1993. Since August 2006, she
has served as consultant and Interim Head of the Oprah Winfrey
Leadership Academy in South Africa. Joan is the author of "Writing to
Learn Mathematics", "Is Gender an Issue in Math?" and "Black Images in
American Literature" (1977). Countryman grew up in Philadelphia and
was the first African-American graduate of Germantown Friends School.
She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, a Master's from
Yale University, and studied at the London School of Economics as a
Fulbright Scholar.

Conference Schedule:
Friday, April 4th
School Visits
"Justice, Not Just Tests" event, co-sponsored by the New York
Collective of Radical Educators (NYCORE). Featuring: Monty Neill,
Executive Director of FairTest; youth slam poets from Urban Word; and
8 mini-workshops led by young people from around the country on
alternatives to standardized testing.

Saturday, April 5th
28 workshops to choose from, including: "Beyond the Math Classroom:
Financial Literacy as a Social Justice Tool," "Discounting Iraqi
deaths: A societal and educational scandal," and "The Mathematics of
Marriage Inequality."
Keynote Speaker
Networking Lunch

Sunday, April 6th
Panel focusing on the question: "How can educators, organizers/
activists and youth work together to use math towards social justice?"
Featuring: Chad Milner and Hector Acevedo of the Young People's
Project, Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools, Elizabeth Yeampierre,
from UPROSE, Nahyshene Molina, from FUREE and Rochelle Gutierrez from
the University of Illinois
Action Groups

Registration Information
Registration is FREE to school groups bringing students. Otherwise,
the registration fee is on a self-selecting sliding scale from $25 -
$300.

Limited seats available in the workshops - so register soon!!!


Virtual Registration
Can't attend the conference? Get a DVD with video footage of
conference events and electronic versions of workshop handouts by
choosing our Virtual Registration. Sign up here.