Informing Our Future By Inspecting Our Past: Deconstructing Lessons from Ed Reform to Create New Solutions
By Julita Bailey-Vasco
Many believe that education can transform people’s lives – with the potential to open up doors of opportunity that had previously been shut. For those who care deeply about social, racial and economic justice in America, it’s a powerful idea. That’s why it feels so painful—and unjust—that public education in the United States has not lived up to its promise.
Now 20 years since the passage of NCLB, and over 50 years since the passage of ESEA, stark inequities still exist in our public education system. Even so, there have been promising efforts to close these gaps, ensuring that every young person has an equitable shot at a high-quality public education. There are promising efforts now, as many seek to dismantle what has not worked for far too long and to create and build anew. We see and hear this in the current calls to not go back to a status quo that did not serve most students, families, and communities well.
In this conversation, Dr. Keith Catone, Executive Director at CYCLE, will sit down with Dr. Sonya Douglass Horsford, Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Deborah Jewell-Sherman, the Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Practice in educational leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and NMEF Board member, and Dr. Warren Simmons, former director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, and also a NMEF Board member. Our panelists have spent a significant amount of time working in education reform and working to improve our nation’s schools. In conversation with them, we’ll learn how we can apply the lessons of our past to current work focused on advancing a more equitable and racially just future.
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Speakers
Dr. Keith Catone
Executive Director @CYCLE (Center for Youth & Community Leadership in Education)
Dr. Deborah Jewell-Sherman
Professor of Practice, The Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership @Harvard Graduate School of Education
Dr. Sonya Douglass Horsford
Professor @Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Warren Simmons
Former Director @Annenberg Institute for School Reform