Dr. Comer on Educational Disparity and Minority Youth Panel

Dr. James P. Comer was a panelist at the symposium, “Educational Disparity and Minority Youth,” co-hosted Yale Law School and Quinnipiac University School of Law. The event was held September 16, 2011 at the TD Bank Sports Center on Quinnipiac’s York Hill campus.

Other panelists included Dr. Reginald Mayo, superintendent of the New Haven Public Schools; Eric Cooper, president of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education; Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education and professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Pedro Noguera, professor of education at New York University and co-director of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings; Dudley N. Williams, Jr.,

Manager, District Education Strategy Relations, GE Equipment Services; Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine; and others.

The symposium brought together a cross-section of stakeholders from education, business, elected officials, and local community organizations, and others who have a vested interest in improving educational outcomes for all children, particularly children of color.