Leading experts in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education from around the country will join with local practitioners for a one-day event on June 12 focusing on recent developments in K-20 pedagogy in these fields. There will be special attention…

John Merrow will be the guest speaker in the semester’s capstone CREO Seminar, with a talk titled “Scared Sleepless: Schooling in the Age…

Anna Haskins, CREO Research Visitor and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present a talk, “Unintended Consequences of Mass Imprisonment: Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Child School Readiness” at this CREO

p(image-default). !/assets/58900/square/diane_ravitch.jpg(diane_ravitch)!The Notre Dame Forum will host Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York University and a distinguished historian of education, for an address on Tuesday, April 10. Prof. Ravitch, who is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., is the author of ten books and editor of 14 others. Her most recent book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education, is a national bestseller. She has served in education-related posts in the administrations of President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton. Prof. Ravitch was born in Houston and attended public schools there. She graduated from Wellesley College and holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her talk at 7 pm in Notre Dame Law School's McCartan Courtroom will be followed by a reception. The address is open to the public, with first come, first served seating.

A panel of educational leaders in the South Bend area will stimulate discussions about issues that have emerged during the Notre Dame Forum and how to view them from a local perspective. Four school principals (Deb Martin of McKinley Primary Center, Karla Lee of Edison Intermediate Center, John Kennedy…

Pauline Lipman is Professor of Policy Studies in the College of Education, University of Illinois-Chicago. Her research focuses on race and class inequality in schools, globalization and urban development, and the political economy and cultural politics of race in urban education. She is the author…

Terry Moe, the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, will speak at this meeting of the Mellon-ISLA Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop. To RSVP for any in the series of talks on “The Political…

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Michael Flanagan, the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state of Michigan…

“Teacher Preparation in an Era of Reform” is the title for a lecture by Suzanne Wilson, the University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. She is also director of the Center for the Scholarship of Teaching at MSU’s…

This event in the Greater Good series at the Mendoza College of Business features Susan Asiyanbi, executive vice president of the teacher preparation, support, and development…

Chloe Gibbs, researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, will present “Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Full-day Kindergarten." The event is free and open to the public.

Thomas DiPrete, professor of sociology at Columbia University, will speak on “Peers and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement.” DiPrete is co-director of the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality. He has published widely on the institutional determinants of trends in the process…

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Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) Law School. From 1999 to 2002 he was the…

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Governor Chris Christie, the 55th and current Governor of New Jersey, will serve as the keynote speaker at this symposium hosted by the Notre Dame Law Review. The event will consider a wide range of legal issues related to education, including the education gap, school choice, charter schools, labor issues, and the effect of the current state and local fiscal crisis on public education. Two panels of legal scholars will present and discuss issues surrounding educational innovation and the law.

Screening of the film American Teacher, sponsored by Educlub.

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A talk with Gerald Grant, author of Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh.

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Dr. Kevin Skelly, Superintendent of the Palo Alto Unified School District, will speak to the Notre Dame community about teaching and the future of education. Event is free.

Sponsored by Educlub, with a reception sponsored by Education, Schooling and Society (ESS) to…

View event recap "here"http://forum2011.nd.edu/forum-events/the-conversation/event-recap Notre Dame welcomes four of the most prominent voices in K–12 education reform for an honest conversation on the extraordinary challenges and opportunities facing our nation’s schools and schoolchildren. This event will feature the following participants: * *Bishop Gerald Kicanas*, bishop of the Diocese of Tucson and chair of Catholic Relief Services * *Wendy Kopp*, founder and CEO of Teach for America * *Juan Rangel*, CEO of Chicago’s United Neighborhood Organization * *Randi Weingarten*, president of the American Federation of Teachers *Professor David Campbell*, founding director of Notre Dame’s Rooney Center for American Democracy and *Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C.*, director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, will serve as moderators for this panel, which will examine issues of educational innovation and reform—as well as the unique role that Notre Dame can and must play in effecting systemic and sustainable improvements in the way we educate our children.

View event recap "here"://forum2011.nd.edu/forum-events/the-architect/eventrecap The 2011–12 Notre Dame Forum begins with an interactive address led by Jeb Bush, Florida’s former governor and founder of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Gov. Bush will address the dramatically changing landscape of K–12 education, as well as how the Notre Dame community can play a vital role in providing vision and leadership in crafting a vibrant education sector for all children. Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, will introduce Bush.