Panel on testing and human rights

[John Lawhead <theyreback@JUNO.COM>]

The Committee on Civil Rights of the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York will present a program,  "High Stakes Educational Testing:
The Civil Rights Perspective" on Tuesday, April 17, 2001.

Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Open to the public, admission free

This program will debate and discuss the purpose and use of high stakes
testing in the context of public education and the implications for civil
rights.

Moderator:  Isabelle Katz Pinzler, Former Acting Assistant Attorney
General, Civil Right Division, U.S. Department of Justice.

Speakers:
Jay P. Heubert, Associate Professor of Education, Columbia University
Teachers College;

Al Kaufman, Regional Council, Mexican American Legal Defense and
Education Fund;

David E. Massengill, Partner, Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett (co-counsel in
the Campaign for Fiscal Equity school financing case);

Gerald DeMauro, New York State Education Department, Coordinator of
Assessment from the Office of Elementary, Middle, Secondary and
Continuing Education;

Eric Nadelstern, Principal, International High School: a Charter School
at LaGuardia Community College;

Nkosi Anderson, senior, Columbia University.

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