The original announcement of the event at Harvard Graduate School of Education on May 17 featured Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam as the luncheon speaker. Governor Haslam just signed anti-gay legislation. He is no longer the luncheon speaker. Louisiana State Superintendent John White is. Well, at least that’s keeping it inside the corporate reform family of voucher-loving, charter-loving privatizers. Notice that Campbell Brown, noted education scholar, is now moderating only one panel, not two. A distinguished academic gathering, to be sure.
Poverty Matters: Making the Case for a System Overhaul
Tuesday, May 17th
9:15a.m.-5:00p.m.
Agenda
Registration and Coffee (8:30a.m.-9:15a.m.)
Welcome Remarks (Askwith Hall)
Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean James Ryan
Opening Address (Askwith Hall)
Introductory Remarks – Harvard University President Drew Faust
Opening Keynote Remarks – Hon. Deval Patrick, former Massachusetts Governor
Demography and Destiny (Askwith Hall)
Paul Reville, Professor – Harvard Graduate School of Education & Founder – Education Redesign Lab
Break
Panel of By All Means Consortium City Mayors (Askwith Hall)
Mayor Joseph Curtatone, Mayor Kimberly Driscoll, Mayor Jorge Elorza,
Mayor Greg Fischer, Mayor Libby Schaaf, & Mayor Setti Warren
Break
Lunch Speaker (Radcliffe Institute)
John White, Louisiana School Superintendent of Education
Break
Can schools alone overcome the challenges of poverty? (Askwith Hall)
Moderator: Campbell Brown, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, The 74
Panelists: Roland Fryer, Henry Lee Professor of Economics – Harvard University,
Richard Barth, CEO – KIPP Foundation, Dr. Pam Cantor, CEO – Turnaround for Children
Break
Best Investments to Ensure Student Success (Askwith Hall)
Panelists: Nicholas Donohue, President and CEO – Nellie Mae Foundation,
Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey, President – Say Yes to Education, along with other invited panelists
Closing (Askwith Hall)
Paul Reville, Professor – Harvard Graduate School of Education & Founder – Education Redesign Lab
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“Can schools alone overcome the challenges of poverty?”
Only a charlatan could turn this into a debate.
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The breaks sound reasonable.
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I wonder if anyone living in poverty will be invited to speak?
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The conference has Roland Fryer to speak about the poor’s need for testing everyday, while his kids in suburban Boston, muse about Shakespeare. (Transcript of the “two-tier” Fryer interview at Deutsch 29 blog).
“Fryer and Levitt Go Ghetto”, is an article at the free market Freakonomics blog. Levitt, from the University of Chicago, should speak at the conference. He said Fryer is like a brother to him. Levitt is on the Blueprint Charter school board, which has a presence in Boston. Levitt could talk about his highly-criticized climate change opinion and his cottage industry, creating contrived permutations.
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I’m surprised Harvard GSE even acknowledges poverty is a thing.
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For Harvard, poverty is a business opportunity.
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Gee, I wonder if they thought to include any real live, currently teaching teachers? No, they just probably included the “experts,” who know how to teach kids in poverty without having to actually step in a classroom, let alone manage one everyday.
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The session on “human capital pipelines” appears to be missing from the program.
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You know our boy TN Billy just HATES controversy and conflict. Hates it. I bet he heard they might be … asking questions.
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As long as it’s out in the open, you are probably right. But behind the scenes…..
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Maybe Haslam reads this blog with his morning coffee and saw the encouragement to mount a protest against him over the religious freedom bill.
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I wonder when TN will be sued over this bill.
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Save me! Just more nonsense. More patting oneselves on the back while our young and teachers suffer. Gross. I can’t take all this “marketing” of BAD & harmful ideas foisted on us.
What a waste of resources. Oh forgot, those in attendance and their buddies will get the coup … PROFITS.
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One bad apple on the branch. Riddance of anti-LGBT governor doesn’t change their program. It’s still a sell-out. Harvard’s Japan Studies Department or the Kennedy School sells out their expertise to big J-corporate conglomerates that formerly sponsored the imperial house during wartime. I don’t remember how many snobbish Japanese elites went to the Kennedy School to featherbed their resumes.
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There is only one state in ed reform (Tennessee) and then there are two cities- DC and New Orleans. “Boston” if they need a city with “high performing” charter schools.
It’s gone beyond cherry-picking. They only discuss their successful experiments.
I’m waiting for ed reform event that focuses on Ohio, or Michigan, or Pennsylvania. I’ll be waiting a long time. The Ohio go-to talking point is “Breakthrough” charter schools in Cleveland. It’s so predictable I wait for in the pro-reform editorials.
The ed reformer in chief, President Obama, seems to be unaware that there are public schools in Ohio that are NOT Breakthrough charter schools.
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“It’s gone beyond cherry-picking. They only discuss their successful experiments”
“Tree Picking”
Pick the tree
And not the cherry
Then you’ll see
The greatest berry
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Which successful experiments?
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This doesn’t look like a gathering from which many new ideas will emerge; man, these people love to listen to their own nonsense….
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