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The Chinese Labor Movement: Which Way Forward?
A discussion featuring Han Dongfang, Founder and Executive Director of China Labour Bulletin.

Areas: International Democracy, International Democracy: China, Worker Rights
Disrupting the Pipeline
The United States accounts for 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners; it is no exaggeration to call our national approach to criminal justice “mass incarceration.” And our prison cells are disproportionately filled with poor men of color, especially African-American men. Mass incarceration is one of the paramount civil rights and economic justice issues of our day.

Areas: K-12 Education
Early Childhood Education: The Word Gap & The Common Core
Given states’ difficulties in implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) thoughtfully, many early childhood educators have begun to worry about what the NAEYC refers to as “a downward pressure of increased academic focus and more narrowed instructional approaches.” But, as the NAEYC’s statement on the CCSS also observed, that “threat also provides an opportunity” for early education to exert more positive, “upward pressure” on the K–12 system.
Areas: Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education
Quality Assessments for Educational Excellence
The conversation focused on federal and state policy on student assessment, with an eye to identifying policies that would promote best assessment practices.
Areas: K-12 Education
Civic Purposes of Public Education and the Common Core
One of the primary purposes of public education is to foster an engaged and well-educated citizenry: For a democracy to function, the "people" who rule must be prepared to take on the duties and the rights of citizens.
Areas: Civic Education, K-12 Education
The Uses and Misues of Value-Added in Teacher Evaluations: Three Perspectives
Nationally-recognized experts, Linda Darling Hammond, Douglas Harris and Thomas Kane will present and discuss concrete proposals for how to incorporate test-based performance measures into new teacher evaluations
Areas: K-12 Education

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