Spring 1999: Choices and Challenges for Public Education:
Agenda for the 21st Century
How can we achieve excellence and equality in education for everyone?
That is the critical question that faces us all at the beginning
of the twenty-first century: parents, policy makers, teachers,
and other concerned citizens. An answer is all the more urgent,
as it is increasingly clear that a good education in K-12 is a
determining factor of subsequent social and economic well-being.
Hardly a day passes that education issues do not achieve national
attention. Consider these recent events: the refusal of several
affluent Vermont towns to pay recently mandated taxes to support
education in less fortunate communities; the California vote to
abolish bilingual education; the ruling of the Wisconsin Supreme
Court allowing vouchers to be used for religious schools; and
the national publicity over the results of the Massachusetts teacher
tests.
These and other events highlight the underlying frustration with
problems in public education and the search for new solutions.
Join us in a series of speakers and symposia that will provide
information and a forum for a critical examination of the issues
and proposed solutions.
February 10, 1999
Teachers and Children in the Urban Schools
Lecture by Jonathan Kozol
Mr. Kozol is author of "Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools and Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation:
February 25, 1999
The Power of Language: Is Bilingual Education Expanding Opportunity
or Limiting Assimilation?
Panel Discussion
Moderator Peter Negroni, Superintendent of Schools in
Springfield, MA.
Jim Cummins, Professor of Education, Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Charles Glenn, Chair, Department of Administration, Training
and Policy Studies, Boston University.
Efrain Martinez, Principal, Gerena German Community School,
Springfield, MA.
Rosalee Porter, Director of Research, Institute for Research
in English Acquisition and Development (READ), Washington, D.C.,
and Amherst, MA.
March 25, 1999
The Economics of School Choice: Who wins? Who Loses?
Panel Discussion
Moderator Cecilia Rouse, Associate Professor of Economics
and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs, Princeton University.
Martin Carnoy, Professor of Economics and Education, Stanford
University.
John Chubb, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
and co-founder of the Edison Project, the country's leading private
manager of public schools.
Annette Williams, Councilwoman in Milwaukee, one of the
first cities in the U.S. with a publicly funded voucher program.
Beverly Parks Greenberg '62, Connecticut State Board of Education.
April 6, 1999
Film: Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
A documentary on the challenges of inner-city schooling in Los Angeles in the context of Proposition 187, violence, and poverty. Film screening and subsequent discussion with Herbert Kohl. Co-sponsored by the Film Studies Program and the Women's Studies Program.
April 7, 1999
The Discipline of Hope
Herbert Kohl, Senior Fellow at the Open Society Institute, reads from his latest book, The Discipline of Hope.
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