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On Tuesday, August 8, 2006 Dr. Loubert will be presenting a paper at the Twenty-sixth Annual ESRI International User Conference. She will present her paper, entitled, "Bus Route Changes Impact on the Poor and Elderly," in the Session titled: Geodemographics: A Window to Understanding Our Nation's Peoples and Communities.
Dr. Linda Loubert, Research Associate at the Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University, will be a panelist for the Emerson National Hunger Fellows Professional Development Day: "Race & Policy: Exploring the Perpetuation of Poverty within Minority Communities." The workshop will be held at The Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives in Washington DC on Friday, May 19, 2006.
Dr. Loubert will be on a panel with Chaka A. K. Uzondu, Education Coordinator for United for a Fair Economy Their topic will be "Continued Segregation: Investigating the Links between Racially Divided Communities and Poverty." The discussion will address questions like "How does education segregation contribute to the cycle of poverty within minority communities (i.e., creating economic segregation, creating poor, segregated communities, etc.)?;" "How has public policy denied/ prevented equal education and funding for minority students?"; "How has public policy failed to eliminate education discrimination and segregation?"; and "How can public policy eliminate education segregation?" Mr. Uzondu and Dr. Loubert will also be discussing the role of racial prejudice within the education system on minority achievement, forms of racial prejudice and ways that policy can address this issue. The origins of the minority achievement gap and possible solutions will also be discussed.
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