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The Askwith Education Forum, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is endowed through the generosity of Patricia Askwith Kenner and other members of the Askwith family, and acts as a galvanizing force for debate and conversation about education in its narrowest and broadest perspectives. Each year, the Forum welcomes a number of prominent people from diverse fields to speak about issues relevant to education and children. Recent topics have included immigration, values, affirmative action, education reform, and the arts. All of these events are free and open to the public.break

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Boston Youth Question the Value of the U.S. Educational System

Tue, Apr 18, 2017

A group of community organizers and students met in a classroom in Harvard's Graduate School of Education to speak with aspiring educators. The question they raised: _Are We Being Educated or Incarcerated?_ "There's too much emphasis on behavioral class management and curriculum development. As a result of such, there's very little engagement and relationship development between teachers and students. Consequently, our urban youth of color are not being effectively educated; they are being mentally colonized, marginalized, and incarcerated." — Emdin (2016) and Quiceno (2017) This discussion gave some youth an opportunity to share with Harvard students and education professionals their personal narratives about the disciplinary issues they have encountered within the public and charter school system. They also offered some recommendations to dismantle the "school-to-prison pipeline".

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Artists As Activists: Muslim Women Artists

Tue, Feb 11, 2003

Munir Jiwa discusses his current research, entitled: *Toward an Anthropology of Islam: Visual Arts and the Construction of Muslim Identities in the USA*. This lecture is part of the Arts in Education Program's John Landrum Bryant Lecture Performance Series. **Munir Jiwa** teaches at the New School University in the areas of anthropology and religion with a focus on the arts, museums, media, and material culture. He consults globally on the subject of Islamic affairs and communications.

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Learning with Excitement: Afterschool Programs

Fri, Oct 3, 2003

This Learning with Excitement Conference presents policy and research perspectives that offer integrative approaches to system-building in youth development and afterschool education. Afterschool education plays an important supporting role in children's scholastic and social success. Among stakeholders, there is not yet consensus concerning the specific objectives and outcomes of afterschool programs. Enhancing young people's overall success through afterschool programing requires a balanced and comprehensive strategy, one that targets a range of developmental competencies and bridges a child's diverse worlds.

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Holding the Truth: Reflections of a Navajo Artist

Thu, Feb 24, 2000

Melanie Yazzie, contemporary Navajo multimedia artist, and visiting professor at the University of Arizona, gives a lecture and slideshow on "Holding the Truth: The Personal and Political in Art." This event iss co-sponsored by the Harvard Native American Program. **Melanie Yazzie** is a Dine (Navajo) artist of the salt and bitter water clans. Yazzie works in a variety of media including prints and ceramics, among others. Through her installations, she examines both internal and external influences on Native people. For instance, neither the cloth in the Dine skirts nor Blue Bird flower are indigenous to the Dine people, but after being filtered through the hearts and hands of one of its women, they become synonymous with it. The monotype is another example of art that challenges Native portrayal in the dominant culture. By using the personal example of her own family, Yazzie presents real portrayal of Native culture, without idealizing, degrading or commercializing it.

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Technology as a Force for Education Reform

Thu, Oct 2, 2003

Milton Chen, executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, and 2003 HGSE Visiting Technology Fellow, discusses technology as a force for systemic change and its implications for K-12 teaching and learning including professional development and classroom modeling.

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Essential Conversation: Between Parents and Teachers

Tue, Oct 28, 2003

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, MacArthur fellow, and author of eight books including *Balm in Gilead, The Good High School,* and *I've Known Rivers,* discusses her newest book, *Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other.*

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W.B. Yeats: The Arch-Poet

Wed, Dec 10, 2003

Roy Foster speaks about the final volume in his acclaimed biography W.B. Yeats, A Life, Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939. **Roy Foster**is the Carroll professor of Irish history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Hartford College. He is author of numerous books including Charles Stewart Parnell and Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life.

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Louis Menand: Pragmatism's Three Moments

Thu, Feb 12, 2004

Louis Menand lectures on pragmatism, a distinctly American philosophy based on experience and experiment rather than fixed principles. Louis Menand, professor of English and American literature and language in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and a member of the Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty, is the author of *The Metaphysical Club* (2001), an exploration of American pragmatism that examines the transformation of American intellectual thought from 1865 to 1919 and explores the development of the pragmatism philosophy.

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No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning

Wed, Apr 7, 2004

Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom, discuss their new book about the racial gap in academics.

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Liberal and Conservative Theories on Urban School Change

Mon, Mar 15, 2004

Charles Payne of Duke University, and author of *I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Movement* discusses "A Curse on Both Their Houses: Liberal and Conservative Theories of Urban School Change."

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