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Community Breakfast: Closing the Technology Achievement Gap

Madison Renaissance Hotel
Seattle, WA

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Community Breakfast: Closing the Technology Achievement Gap

Community Breakfast: Closing the Technology Achievement Gap
Featuring national education expert Jane Margolis and local innovator Trish Millines Dziko

Partnership for Learning is pleased to present a community breakfast on how inadequate access to technology learning and training is limiting achievement and post-high school options for minority students. The breakfast will also feature a discussion on schools, both locally and nationally, that are beating the odds and preparing all their students for success in the jobs of the future.

A Senior Researcher at the Institute of Democracy, Education and Access at UCLAs Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Jane Margolis has spent her career studying the effects of technology access on the success of individuals. In Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing, Margolis looks at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. What she finds is that insidious virtual segregation that maintains inequality.

To close the technology achievement gap, Margolis recommends closely examining school structures (such as course offerings and student-to-counselor ratios) and belief systems -- including teachers assumptions about their students and students assumptions about themselves. In order to frame these problems and solutions for Washington state, Trish Millines Dziko, past Microsoft executive and founder of the Technology Access Foundation (TAF), will speak to what her organization -- as well as the newly founded TAF Academy in Federal Way -- is doing to offer local minority students technology access and high-demand skills. Dziko will also moderate an intimate discuss with Margolis on what educators, community members and policymakers can do to make sure all students have the tools they need to excel -- no matter path they take in life.