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Harvard Graduate School of Education

The Askwith Education Forum, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is endowed through the generosity of Patricia Askwith Kenner and other members of the Askwith family, and acts as a galvanizing force for debate and conversation about education in its narrowest and broadest perspectives. Each year, the Forum welcomes a number of prominent people from diverse fields to speak about issues relevant to education and children. Recent topics have included immigration, values, affirmative action, education reform, and the arts. All of these events are free and open to the public.break

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    Boston Youth Question the Value of the U.S. Educational System

    Tue, Apr 18, 2017
    A group of community organizers and students met in a classroom in Harvard's Graduate School of Education to speak with aspiring educators. The question they raised: _Are We Being Educated or Incarcerated?_ "There's too much emphasis on behavioral class management and curriculum development. As a result of such, there's very little engagement and relationship development between teachers and students. Consequently, our urban youth of color are not being effectively educated; they are being mentally colonized, marginalized, and incarcerated." — Emdin (2016) and Quiceno (2017) This discussion gave some youth an opportunity to share with Harvard students and education professionals their personal narratives about the disciplinary issues they have encountered within the public and charter school system. They also offered some recommendations to dismantle the "school-to-prison pipeline".
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    Boston Talks About Racism
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  • How Educators Can Help Children Exposed to Trauma

    Mon, Nov 28, 2005
    This forum, specially designed for school leaders, teachers, counselors, and community interventionists, discusses potential student and family reactions to trauma, as well as immediate and sustained ways for assisting in their continued emotional and educational development. The panelists discuss how, in the wake of traumatic events, educators often grapple with understanding and responding to the needs of affected children.
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    Mental Health Month
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  • Community and Youth Organization and Reform

    Thu, Mar 09, 2006
    The Harvard Graduate School of Education hosts a forum focused on community and youth organizing as a strategy to build civic participation and power in low income communities and as a powerful force for change in urban schools.
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  • Connecting the Scholar and the Classroom

    Thu, Mar 23, 2006
    A panel of experts debate educational theories and other intriguing topics in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Harvard Educational Review. Topics discussed: How is educational research evolving? How are researchers addressing changing demands of the field, developing technology and globalization, as well as increased aims to link educational theory, practice, and policy? Speakers include Kevin Kumashiro, Director, Center for Anti-Oppressive Education; Richard Murnane, Academic Dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Sonia Nieto, Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The discussion is moderated by Kathleen McCartney, Acting Dean and Gerald S. Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development.
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  • Emerging Field of the Arts in Education

    Thu, May 04, 2006
    Steve Seidel moderates as a panel reflects on the history and future of the field of arts in education.
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  • Back to School: Path to Universal Primary Education

    Tue, Mar 13, 2007
    Wide Angle producer Pamela Hogan screens her film *Back to School*, and a panel discusses universal primary education. Across the world, more than 100 million children are out of school this year. In the developing world, one in four children drop out before completing four years of education. Nearly one billion adults, one sixth of the world's people, are illiterate. In 2003, producers from New York's Wide Angle world affairs television series traveled to Afghanistan, India, Benin, Brazil, Romania, Kenya, and Japan to film the stories of seven children beginning their first year of formal schooling, some against great odds. Now, three years later, the filmmakers have returned with *Back to School*, a film which revisits these children as they continued, or fell behind, on their paths through elementary school. The speakers in this discussion include David Bloom, Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard School of Public Health; Matthew Jukes, assistant professor of education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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  • Abbott Districts: Better Funding, Better Achievement

    Thu, Mar 16, 2006
    The Harvard Graduate School of Education hosts a forum focusing on New Jersey's Abbott Districts, where state aid, resulting from thirty years of legal challenges, makes average per pupil spending higher now than it is in the state's suburbs. This increase in spending highlights the link between better funding and academic achievement. Can whole school systems be transformed to close achievement gaps? Does money matter? Thirty little-known Abbott Districts in New Jersey are the nation's leading response. The Abbott and Union City stories are not well known, but have national implications. This forum features Gordon MacInnes, Assistant Commissioner for Abbott Implementation, and Fred Carrigg, Special Assistant to the Commissioner for Urban Literacy, who helped move Union City from the second lowest-performing system in New Jersey to the highest among the state's larger systems. Ronald Ferguson, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, moderates.
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  • Communities of Color Moving Forward

    Fri, Mar 03, 2006
    Panelists discuss how they understand and define catastrophe in the context of communities of color. They ask whether catastrophe is a one-time, horrific event that changes a community's daily life or a long-range series of events that consistently undermine a community ability to pursue goals. Is a catastrophic event generated by natural occurrences or human action? Attention is specifically focused on events affecting individuals and communities of color and a community's ability to drive the education of its members.
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  • School District Reform: Leadership in Uncertain Times

    Mon, Apr 24, 2006
    This panel, moderated by Robert Peterkin, Francis Keppel Professor of Educational Policy and Administration and director of the Urban Superintendents Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, gives Tom Payzant and Arlene Ackerman, two outstanding Superintendents, an opportunity to share their experiences and reflect on how to improve some of our most challenging districts. Both Tom Payzant and Arlene Ackerman have proven that a superintendent committed to a theory of action can make a difference in some of our nation's most complex districts. Both Payzant and Ackerman have also shattered the "urban myth" that large city superintendents only remain in office for less than three years. Payzant's 10-year tenure in Boston and Ackerman's six-year tenure in San Francisco have been characterized by real change focused on improving teaching and learning in schools. Both superintendents have demonstrated that it is possible to adopt a plan for reform and find the needed talent, resources, and support to make it happen.
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  • How Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Needs

    Wed, May 10, 2006
    Patricia Albjerg Graham, Charles Warren Research Professor of the History of American Education, discusses her her recent book, Schooling America. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Graham illustrates Americans' changing demands for our schools and colleges, and how these institutions have responded by providing what critics want, though never as completely or as quickly as they would like. Learn about the passionate educators, scholars and journalists who drove particular agendas, and Graham's own family, starting with her immigrant father's first day of school and moving through her experiences as a teacher. Invaluable background in the ongoing debate on education in the United States, her book offers an insightful look at what the public has sought from its educational institutions, what educators have delivered, and what remains to be done. She is introduced by Richard Murnane, Academic Dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society.
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