On October 19, the distinguished scholar Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University will speak at Wellesley College in the Annual Diane Silvers Ravitch Class of ’60 Lecture on Education and the Common Good.
The lecture is free and open to all. It begins at 7:30 pm in Alumnae Hall Auditorium.
Please mark the date on your calendar.
The first speaker in the series in 2015 was me.
Last year’s speaker was Pasi Sahlberg of Finland.
Linda D-H is the speaker for 2017.
The series will feature a leading educator and/or scholar every year. The thread that binds them all is concern for “the common good,” the public welfare of America’s children.
Please join us for what promises to be a great, thought-provocative, informative evening!
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Looking forward to this! Thanks Diane!
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I will miss you! After the NPE conference, I’m staying on the west coast for a visit with my daughter, a Park Ranger at Yosemite.
But perhaps you could prevail on Wellesley to do a town/gown showing of “Backpacks Full of Cash”? Influential folks in higher education (lots in the Boston area) haven’t been giving the issue of privatization enough attention. Your alma mater could get the ball rolling!
Also, Wellesley’s state Rep. Alice Peisch has been an advocate of Question 2 and now is pushing for all the myriad means around that decisive vote in order to continue on the path to destroying our public schools. Wellesley was one of only 14 of Massachusetts’ 351 cities and towns to approve Question 2. A bit of education is needed in one of our state’s wealthiest towns, with some of its best (of cour$e!) public schools.
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I know a naturalist in East Tennessee named Marty Silvers. That is not a common name. Any relation?
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