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In both France and the United States, there is a strong correlation between the socioeconomic status of parents and the educational achievement of their children. What are the roles of the political and educational systems with respect to this correlation? How might educators, parents, students, and policymakers answer the question differently? Who should be held accountable and how? There have been major policy initiatives, as well as vigorous empirical and theoretical debate in both countries surrounding those questions and the problems they pose for nations founded on principles of equality. What can France and the U.S. learn from one another when it comes to education, access, and accountability? These are among the key questions addressed in this symposium by expert speakers from France and the United States.

Christian Baudelot

Christian Baudelot

  

Paul Umbach

Paul Umbach

Program

8:30 am – Coffee

9:00 am – New Challenges in Access to French Higher Education

  • Christian Baudelot (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

Discussant: Patricia Little (St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University)

Chair: Alec G. Hargreaves (Winthrop-King Institute, FSU)

10:15 am – Coffee

10:45 am – Social Class and Access to American Higher Education

  • Paul D. Umbach (Indiana University)

Discussant: Nate Johnson (Florida Department of Education)

Chair: Carolyn Herrington (Department of Educational Leadership, FSU)

12:00 pm – Close of symposium and Lunch

 

 

For more information contact: 

Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics

Florida State University

Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1540

Telephone 850.644.7636

Fax 850.644.9917

E-mail icffs@mailer.fsu.edu

Website www.winthropking.fsu.edu