Next conference: March 6-7, 2009, New York City
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FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Educational Reformer, Writer and ActivistDEBORAH MEIER & DIANE RAVITCH Education Historian and Former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education Deborah Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education as a teacher, writer and public advocate. She was the founder of a network of small public elementary and secondary schools in New York City and Boston, including the Central Park East schools in East Harlem. A learning theorist, she encourages new approaches that enhance democracy and equity in public education. She is currently on the faculty of New York University's Steinhardt School of Education. Read Deborah Meier's post on EdBlog here. Diane Ravitch is an education historian and a former assistant U.S. secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush. As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of state and national academic standards. She was appointed by the Clinton administration to serve two terms on the National Assessment Governing Board. Now a research professor of education at NYU, she is a senior fellow at both the Brookings Institution, in Washington, and the Hoover Institution, in Stanford, CA. Read Diane Ravitch's post on EdBlog here. |
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