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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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  • Unholy War: Terror In the Name of Islam

    Wed, May 08, 2002
    Considered "the most influential Islamic Scholar in the United States" by the International Herald Tribune, John Esposito discusses his latest book, *Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam*, which sketches the activities and influence of Osama bin Laden, surveys the doctrines and practice of jihad throughout history, presents the major Islamist groups worldwide, and concludes by asking, "Where do we go from here?" John Esposito is Professor of Religion and International Affairs, and of Islamic Studies, at Georgetown University, and is the founding Director of Georgetown's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
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  • A Nation Reformed or a Nation at Risk?

    Wed, Feb 19, 2003
    This discussion, led by some of the contributors to the recently published book, *A Nation Reformed?*, in response to the 20th anniversary of the release of *A Nation at Risk*, focuses on the educational gains and losses of the last 20 years. The panel is moderated by the book's editor, David Gordon, and includes Timothy Knowles, deputy superintendent for the Boston Public Schools; Kim Marshall, former principal of Boston's Mather Elementary School, now with New Leaders for New Schools; Jeff Howard, founder and chair of the Efficacy Institute; and Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, Harvard University, and a member of the National Commission on Excellence in Education which produced *A Nation at Risk*.
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  • Language Police: Restricting What We learn

    Tue, May 06, 2003
    Diane Ravitch discusses her latest book The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. Ravitch maintains that America's students are compelled to read texts that have been censored by publishers who willingly cut controversial material from their books. Her book documents the existence of an elaborate and well established protocol of beneficent censorship, quietly endorsed and implemented by test makers and textbook publishers, states, and the federal government. School boards and sensitivity committees review, abridge, and modify texts to delete potentially offensive words, topics, and imagery. Publishers practice self-censorship to sell books in big states.
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  • Learning Through Music: A Model for Arts Integration

    Thu, Nov 07, 2002
    Lawrence Scripp explores music as a medium and model for interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Contemporary educators and researchers have been interested in the possible links between the learning students do in music and learning across the curriculum. Using music as a point of departure, Scripp discusses the innovations and controversies with regard to early development of symbol system skills (literacy in music, math, and reading); arts-integrated teaching and learning processes; research in music and learning transfer; and a "design standards" approach for the development of research-based interdisciplinary music curricula and assessment practices in public schools. This lecture is part of the Arts in Education Program's John Landrum Bryant Lecture Performance Series.
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  • Blue Guitars: Arts and Aesthetics in Learning

    Tue, May 04, 1999
    Maxine Greene, professor emerita of philosophy and education and director of the Center for Social Imagination at Columbia University, shares her vision of the power of the arts in education to transform student indifference into a state of wide-awakeness. This lecture is part of the Arts in Education Program's John Landrum Bryant Lecture Performance Series.
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  • Paradigm Spinning: Artists as Agents of Social Change

    Wed, Mar 14, 2001
    Suzi Gablik departs from what she calls "the faded ethos of modernism," and explains why she sees artists as agents of social change. This lecture is part of the Arts in Education Program's John Landrum Bryant Lecture Performance Series.
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  • Louis Menand: Pragmatism's Three Moments

    Thu, Feb 12, 2004
    Louis Menand lectures on pragmatism, a distinctly American philosophy based on experience and experiment rather than fixed principles. Louis Menand, professor of English and American literature and language in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and a member of the Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty, is the author of *The Metaphysical Club* (2001), an exploration of American pragmatism that examines the transformation of American intellectual thought from 1865 to 1919 and explores the development of the pragmatism philosophy.
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  • 18,190 Days: Brown v. Board of Education

    Fri, Mar 05, 2004
    On the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, this panel discussion considers the topic "18,190 Days of (de)Segregation: How Far Have We Come?" with Angelo Ancheta, Mitchell Chang, Vanessa Siddle Walker, and Charles Willie.
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  • Edmund Barry Gaither on Art History and Curation

    Wed, Apr 10, 2002
    Art historian and curator Edmund Barry Gaither discusses his work at the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists. This lecture is part of the Arts in Education Program's John Landrum Bryant Lecture Performance Series.
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  • Learning with Excitement: Afterschool Programs

    Fri, Oct 03, 2003
    This Learning with Excitement Conference presents policy and research perspectives that offer integrative approaches to system-building in youth development and afterschool education. Afterschool education plays an important supporting role in children's scholastic and social success. Among stakeholders, there is not yet consensus concerning the specific objectives and outcomes of afterschool programs. Enhancing young people's overall success through afterschool programing requires a balanced and comprehensive strategy, one that targets a range of developmental competencies and bridges a child's diverse worlds.
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