The Network for Public Education is live-streaming events from Indianapolis. Watch here.
If you weren’t able to make it to Indianapolis to join us this year, don’t fret – we’ve got you covered! Just hop on to the NPE Action Facebook page to catch all of the keynote speeches and select workshops both Saturday and Sunday.
Here’s a schedule of everything that will be live-streamed. Click the “read more” links below for more information about workshops and speakers.
And make sure to use the hashtag #NPE18INDY on social media to interact with conference attendees all weekend!
Saturday:
8:00-9:20 – Diane Ravitch & Pasi Sahlberg (read more)
9:30-10:40 – The People of Arizona vs. The Koch Brothers: Fighting Privatization and Dark Money with Beth Lewis and Sharon Kirsch (read more)
10:50-12:00 – Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist with Peter Greene, Leonie Haimson and Audrey Watters (read more)
12:30-1:20 – Teachers in Action: A Conversation with Teacher Leaders with Michelle Gunderson, Petia Edison, Rebecca Garelli and Alex Orozco (read more)
2:40-3:50 – Fighting Privatization in Puerto Rico with Edwin Morales Laboy, Mercedes Martinez, Aixa Rodriguez and Kaliris Salas (read <a href="https://events.bizzabo.com/NPE18INDY/agenda/session/273315?link_id=5&can_id=012f354d90b87664b362dda6a4b2980d&source=email-npe18indy-livestream-starts-tomorrow-morning&email_referrer=email_439078&email_subject=npe18indy-livestream-starts-tomorrow-morning”>more)
4:00-5:10 – Grading the States: The NPE/Schott School Privatization Report Card with Derek Black, Carol Burris and Tanya Clay House (read more)
5:20-6:00 – Helen Gym: Victories for Public Education in Philadelphia (read more)
Sunday:
8:15-9:25 – #WeChoose Campaign; Building a Multi-Racial Visionary National Campaign Rooted in Racial Justice and Local Realities with Jitu Brown, Elzora Cleveland, Ronsha Dickerson, Angel Gober, Kamua Kepheru and Maulana Tolbert (read more)
10:00-10:45 – Jesse Hagopian: Black Lives Matter at School (read more)
10:55-12:05 – The Racist Origins of Standardized Testing and the Racist Idea of Black/Brown Inferiority with Erika Strauss Chavarria, Denisha Jones and Marla Kilfoyle (read more)
12:15-12:35 – Call to Action
12:45-2:00 – NAACP President, Derrick Johnson (read more)
We hope you’ll “join” us this weekend on Facebook live!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thanks for the links. Couldn’t make it, but will be following.
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I deleted my Facebook account awhile back due to their unethical, hinky business practices. I can’t believe I had to sign up for it again in order to watch this! I did, but it was not possible to change the default settings on everything in order to ensure total privacy –which is one of the issues I have with them. Isn’t there a better way to get this to those of us who are very interested but unable to attend?
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The things that are live-streamed will be turned into videos and I will post them when they become available
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R4A: I did exactly what you did. As a first time attendee of the NPE annual meeting, I must confess to being a bit befuddled.
Many of the presentations extol the virtues of social media, including Facebook. As I have said to many today, I’m having a hard time reconciling the knowledge I have about Zuckerberg’s connection to the evils threatening public education—thanks in large part to Diane’s blog—with this message.
I write this not to provide an answer for you, but to confirm the conundrum of your question. I mentioned to someone tonight that as I thought about this, I thought of the scenario of the existence of a communications network in Nazi Germany that both facilitated the slaughter of people and allowed the potential victims to communicate with each other to save some of them. Would I condemn those who knew of its purpose but used that knowledge to save some? Not sure. But it does vex me.
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Social media is a two-edged phenomenon.
On one hand, it can be used to manipulate us, deceive us, invade our privacy, convey lies, and admit strangers and predators into our homes.
On the other hand, it was a vital organizing tool for teachers who planned a strike in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and elsewhere.
Use it with care.
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It honors the nation to have Diane and NPE fighting for democracy and fighting for the children of the people who build the nation by contributing to GDP, unlike the enemies of the common good e.g. Dan Loeb, Doris Fisher, Alice Walton, Chester Finn and Bill Gates.
NPE’s annual conference this year is part of a movement for the soul of the country and no group shows better the goodness in the American people.
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I want to associate myself with your remarks.
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Try this link:
https://www.facebook.com/networkforpubliceducation/
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A GREAT organization.
Too:
Someone responded to my post on paper and pencil tests evaluating a person’s value to society. If memory is correct an answer was given of a Chinese test which produced great materialistic results there for some time. In China back then I do not know what the average person’s life was like. Historians can answer this better than I. From what I know it was not all that great.
I probably should have been more precise but for me societal values encompass far more than materialistic results.
Honesty, integrity, concern for others etc are for me as or even more important than materialistic concerns.
Vitally important; have our political leaders exhibited these qualities which would make life better for us and for the rest of the planet? Materialistically we have the highest standard of living perhaps in the history of the world yet about 20% of our children live in poverty.
Has our over emphasis on materialism without the concomitant emphasis on my enumerated qualities above blinded us to what real education should be about. Ergo, for me paper and pencil tests can never quantify these qualities which make for quality societal life.
There are many other qualities which our educational community have stated which in my mind are vital to society as well as to the individual child which need never to be forgotten but the politicians have.
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