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Harvard Graduate School of Education

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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  • Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day

    Tue, Mar 22, 2005
    Lecturing from her book Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day, Jessica Hoffmann Davis, offers suggestions for making non-arts education more connected to and like the arts. This discussion is part of the John Landrum Bryant Lecture/Performance Series, sponsored by the HGSE Arts in Education Program and supported by the Bauman Foundation.
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  • Telling Tales: Reading with Michael Armstrong

    Tue, Apr 19, 2005
    Michael Armstrong, author of Closely Observed Children, reads from Girl Today, Hare Tomorrow, a story by a child that to him represents the culmination of elementary school art. This reading is part of the John Landrum Bryant Lecture/Performance Series, sponsored by the HGSE Arts in Education Program and supported by the Bauman Foundation.
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  • Arts and Schools: Reconciling Opposites

    Thu, Apr 21, 2005
    Dick Deasy, director of the Arts Education Partnership in Washington, DC, and editor of Critical Links, speaks about schools and the arts. Sponsored by the John Landrum Bryant Lecture/Performance Series, which is part of the Arts in Education Program.
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  • Assessing Literacy: Exploring the Reader's Mind and Heart

    Thu, Apr 7, 2005
    Robert Calfee discusses the importance of effective teaching and active research regarding reading and accessing literacy. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education and Dean, provides an introduction to the lecture.
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  • Inventing Kindergarten: Seedbed of Modern Art

    Thu, May 5, 2005
    Norman Brosterman discusses the history of kindergarten and its influence on such modernist giants as Frank Lloyd Wright, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus school. In his book Inventing Kindergarten, Brosterman argues that within this lost world of women and children we can locate the seedbed of modern art. With its emphasis on abstract decomposition and building up from elemental forms, the original kindergarten system of the mid-nineteenth century created an education and design revolution that profoundly affected the course of modern art and architecture, as well as physics, music, psychology and the modern mind itself.
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  • How Educators Can Help Children Exposed to Trauma

    Mon, Nov 28, 2005
    This forum, specially designed for school leaders, teachers, counselors, and community interventionists, discusses potential student and family reactions to trauma, as well as immediate and sustained ways for assisting in their continued emotional and educational development. The panelists discuss how, in the wake of traumatic events, educators often grapple with understanding and responding to the needs of affected children.
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  • Community and Youth Organization and Reform

    Thu, Mar 9, 2006
    The Harvard Graduate School of Education hosts a forum focused on community and youth organizing as a strategy to build civic participation and power in low income communities and as a powerful force for change in urban schools.
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  • Connecting the Scholar and the Classroom

    Thu, Mar 23, 2006
    A panel of experts debate educational theories and other intriguing topics in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Harvard Educational Review. Topics discussed: How is educational research evolving? How are researchers addressing changing demands of the field, developing technology and globalization, as well as increased aims to link educational theory, practice, and policy? Speakers include Kevin Kumashiro, Director, Center for Anti-Oppressive Education; Richard Murnane, Academic Dean and Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Sonia Nieto, Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The discussion is moderated by Kathleen McCartney, Acting Dean and Gerald S. Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development.
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  • Abbott Districts: Better Funding, Better Achievement

    Thu, Mar 16, 2006
    The Harvard Graduate School of Education hosts a forum focusing on New Jersey's Abbott Districts, where state aid, resulting from thirty years of legal challenges, makes average per pupil spending higher now than it is in the state's suburbs. This increase in spending highlights the link between better funding and academic achievement. Can whole school systems be transformed to close achievement gaps? Does money matter? Thirty little-known Abbott Districts in New Jersey are the nation's leading response. The Abbott and Union City stories are not well known, but have national implications. This forum features Gordon MacInnes, Assistant Commissioner for Abbott Implementation, and Fred Carrigg, Special Assistant to the Commissioner for Urban Literacy, who helped move Union City from the second lowest-performing system in New Jersey to the highest among the state's larger systems. Ronald Ferguson, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, moderates.
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  • Emerging Field of the Arts in Education

    Thu, May 4, 2006
    Steve Seidel moderates as a panel reflects on the history and future of the field of arts in education.
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