Event: Education & the Achievement Gap @ Mills

[Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>]

This was posted to the UC Berkeley Grad School of 
Ed email list.  Notice that they have the 
mouthpiece of the standardistas on the panel (R Ali of Ed-Trust West)



> Hi GSE -
> If you have questions about this event, please 
> direct them to: Thea Chroman at  tchroman (at) gmail.com
> Thanks!
> -Liz
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> This forum free and open to the public.
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> YOU ARE INVITED TO A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ABOUT PUBLIC EDUCATION REFORM
>
> Mills College Presents:
>
> Education and the Achievement Gap:
> A Community Conversation
>
> Wednesday, February 20, 2008
> 6:30 ? 8:00 pm
> Lisser Hall
> Mills College
>
> Why are so many students falling behind?  Is the 
> educational system failing our children?
>
> Please join us for this on-stage conversation 
> with a live audience. The first half of the 
> forum will feature a panel discussion with those 
> in the trenches about what is working in public 
> education reform and what is not.  The second 
> half will call on the audience, on young people 
> and those who work with them, live with them and 
> care about them to put forward their ideas about 
> how to address the ills of public education in 
> urban America.  This conversation will be hosted 
> by Rose Aguilar and taped for broadcast on 
> public radio KQED (88.5 FM) and KALW (91.7 FM) 
> in March, which will allow us to reach hundreds 
> of thousands of listeners and expand the community conversation even further.
>
>
> On-stage guests Include:
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> Mark Sanchez, President, San Francisco Board of Education
> Olis Simmons, Executive Director, Youth UpRising
> Russlynn Ali, Founding Director, The Education Trust?West
>
> Join us!  We need your perspective to help us round out the conversation!