Illinois Professor to Discuss Educational Inequality at Friday Lecture

Christy Lleras
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Christy Lleras

Christy Lleras, an associate professor of human and community development at the University of Illinois, will give a lecture titled "Unpacking Educational Inequality: Segregation, Mobility and Opportunity" at noon Friday, March 10, on the University of Arkansas campus.

The lecture is part of the Department of Education Reform lecture series. RSVP online for lunch on the lecture website. Deadline to RSVP is 1 p.m. the Wednesday before the lecture. It will be in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building.

Lleras' research interests include sociology of education. She directs a lab at the University of Illinois. Current projects include the DREAM (Developing Responses to Poverty through Education and Meaning) Project, the Great Recession and Child Development project and the Family Conditions, Social Institutions and Early Child Development project.

Contacts

Heidi S. Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138, heidisw@uark.edu

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