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Russell B. Rumberger, Vice Provost for Education Partnerships, University of California, Professor of Education in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara, and current director of the California Dropout Research Project, will give a lecture title "Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It." Dr. Rumberger has published widely in areas such as the schooling of disadvantaged students, dropouts and linguistic minority students, school eff...
The Maxine Greene Society presents a screening of: Wham! Bam! Islam!
ENGAGING STUDENTS IN THE NATION'S FISCAL CHALLENGES moderated by ELIZABETH WILLEN, Director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media featuring special guests CHARLES CALOMIRIS, Columbia Business School JUDITH JOHNSON, former superintendent, Peekskill schools PETER ORSZAG, Vice Chairman of Global Banking, Citigroup, and Bloomberg View columnist PETER G. PETERSON, former US Secretary of Commerce
Moderated by Robbie McClintock, Emeritus Professor in the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education; with Jennifer Hogan (PhD ?00); Richard Jochum, Adjunct Professor of Art and Art Education; Ellen Livingston (MA ?97); Mark Phillipson, Senior Program Specialist, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning; Victor Samra, Digital Media Marketing Manager at MoMA If you can?t see it or hear it, how can you appreciate it? As arts programs lose funding, e-resources can provide st...
Moderated by Barry Farber (MA '70), Professor of Psychology and Education featuring Dailey Pattee (PhD '04), Psychoanalyst and TC Trustee; Elizabeth Reid (PhD '09) Clinical Psychologist and Dinelia Rosa, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, Director of the Dean Hope Center You meet and almost immediately you?re friends on Facebook. Now it's time to consider the power that social media wield in our daily lives, particularly the lives of adolescents, and ponder some perplexing questi...
A cooking demonstration led by Pam Koch (EdD ?00), Executive Director, Center for Food & assisted by Kathleen Porter and Tomoko Iwaki. Environment for adults and kids ages 6 and upPut the fun in the fundamentals of healthy living. Getting your kids involved in the kitchen is the first step in teaching them how to make healthy choices about nutrition. They will find out that what?s good for you ? and good for the planet ? can taste good, too.