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Jul132015

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Working Together Matters for Improvement

Improvement is as much about the capacities of educators and school leaders (human capital) as it is about the capacities and resources that are created between them (social capital) at all levels of the school organization and broader school system.

Jun152015

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Organizing the Workers of Walmart: From Bentonville to Beijing

Speakers will discuss campaigns to organize the workers of Walmart, in the United States and in China. They include Han Dongfang, Nelson Lichtenstein, Ph.D., Yi Duan, and Emily Stewart.

Jun122015

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Gauging the Impact of School-Based Health Care On Students’ Health, Wellbeing and Educational Outcomes

Co-sponsored by the Albert Shanker Institute, the American Federation of Teachers, the American Public Health Association, and the National Association of School Nurses.

Jun102015

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The Affordability Crisis: Rescuing the Dream of College Education for the Working-Class and Poor

Speakers: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Beth Huang, Zakiya Smith; Moderator: Mary Cathryn Ricker.

May292015

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Strategies for African-American Economic Emancipation

A panel sponsored by the Albert Shanker Institute at the Fighting Inequality Conference at Georgetown University.

May132015

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Education and Economic Policy in an Age of Political Polarization: Is There a Good Way Forward?

Is there a way for education and economic policy to escape from the paralyzing dynamic of political polarization that has confounded progress on so many issues?

May12015

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In Defense of the Public Square

A robust and vibrant public square is an essential foundation of democracy. It is the place where the important public issues of the day are subject to free and open debate, and our ideas of what is in the public interest take shape.

Apr82015

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Opportunities to Learn: Equity in American Education- Looking Backward, Looking Forward

In an era of growing racial and class segregation in American education, what must be done to provide every student with a genuine opportunity to learn?

Apr82015

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Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education Conversation Series, 2014-2015

Co-sponsored with the American Federation of Teachers and held the second Wednesday of every month during the school year, this series is designed to engender lively and informative conversations on important educational issues. We invite speakers with diverse perspectives.

Mar142015

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Fairness & Effectiveness in School Discipline

How do we teach discipline and maintain order, while protecting against the effects of persistent, unconscious biases? How do we ensure that schools are warm, welcoming, fair, and effective in the treatment of all students?

Mar132015

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The Social Side of Teaching — A New Framework For Improving The Profession

Teaching and learning are not primarily individual accomplishments but rather social endeavors that are best achieved and improved through trusting relationships and teamwork. Yet, most policies focus on improving the individual capacities of teachers. What is to be gained from approaches that strike a balance between human and social capital?

Mar132015

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A Diverse Teacher Force

There is concern that, as the U.S. population and student body is growing more racially and ethically diverse, the teacher workforce does not yet reflect this diversity. In fact, diversity should go beyond having more black and brown teachers in front of students. Diversity is also about equipping all teachers (regardless of race) to work with heterogeneous classrooms and diverse schools. Watch the video.

Mar112015

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Is There A Pension Crisis?

Elected officials seeking to diminish the pensions of public sector employees have argued that they are responding to a fiscal crisis. Is this crisis real or contrived?

Feb182015

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ESEA at 50: The Federal Government and Equity in American Education

The basic provisions of Title I have barely changed in 50 years, and neither has the persistent inequality of educational opportunities offered to poor children. What more should Congress do?

Jan152015

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American Labor Movement at a Crossroads: New Thinking, New Organizing, New Strategies

This conference examines new thinking and new initiatives in labor organizing, viewing them critically in the light of ongoing union imperatives of cultivating member activism and involvement, fostering democratic self-governance and building the collective power of working people.

Jan142015

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The Emergence of the "Precariat": What Does The Loss of Stable Well-Compensated Employment Mean For Education?

The emergence of the global knowledge economy has revolutionized the nature of work in America – for the worse.

Dec12014

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Losing Our Way: Book Event with Bob Herbert and Randi Weingarten

After Bob Herbert filed his last New York Times opinion column in 2011, he set off on a journey across the country to report on Americans who were being left behind. The portraits of those he encountered fuel his new book, Losing Our Way.

Nov122014

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The Next Generation of Differentiated Compensation: What Next?

This panel will examine the terrain of teacher compensation from a number of different perspectives, offering their recommendations on what a good compensation policy would entail.

Oct72014

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How Do We Get Experienced, Accomplished Teachers Into High Need Schools?

From a variety of different perspectives, our panel will address two vital questions: What are the systemic causes of this mismatch of educational resources and educational need? What policies could be adopted to remedy this mismatch, and attract experienced, accomplished teachers into schools with high educational need?

Sep242014

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This is Not A Test: Jose Vilson Book Event

This book follows the author through his coming-of-age story, beginning as a naïve young man growing up in the drug-tainted, community-centered projects of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and continuing through his struggles to mature and give back through a career teaching middle school math.

Sep92014

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A New Social Compact for American Education: Fixing Our Broken Accountability System

Twelve years after the passage of No Child Left Behind and five years into Race to the Top, America finds itself in a ‘test and punish’ system of school accountability that poorly serves the nation and its students.

Sep12014

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Conversation Series, 2014-2015

Sponsored by the Albert Shanker Institute and the American Federation of Teachers, this conversation series is designed to engender lively and informative discussions on important educational issues.

Jun242014

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Chinese Labor Movement: Which Way Forward?

In April, approximately 40,000 workers struck the footwear manufacturing facilities operated by Yue Yuen Industrial, a global supplier of shoes for brands such as Adidas and Nike.

Jun112014

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Educational Justice and the Integration of American Schools

As we mark the sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the promise of that historic decision remains unfulfilled. Watch the Conversation.