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MARCH 2005

Sarah Lawrence College Hosts Conference On Crises in Education

Nationally renowned educators will address controversial issues in education that they consider to be of crisis proportions at a conference hosted by Sarah Lawrence College's Child Development Institute (CDI) April 1—2.

Confronting the Crises in Education will focus on critical issues rocking the early childhood and elementary education communities, including the pressures to introduce academics in preschool, the achievement gap between middle-class and disadvantaged students, and the rise of standardization, high stakes testing and school choice. Panelists will discuss these crises and present their views on ways to reconcile them.

“There is a real sense that these crises have existed in various forms for decades, but the debate on how to resolve them is at a much higher intensity now,” says Margery Franklin, CDI director. “People in the field feel an urgency about articulating and debating issues that the larger public can understand, respond to and do something about.”

Designed to provide a forum for substantive discussion of current debates in education, the conference brings together a group of eminent scholars who will speak on topics at the intersection of theory, policy and practice as well as engage the audience in discussion.

Edward F. Zigler, Director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University and Sterling Professor of Psychology, Emeritus will present the keynote lecture on Friday April 1 at 4:30 p.m. Four successive panels will be held on Saturday, April 2 beginning at 9:00 and running until 5:00 with a break for lunch at 12:15. Closing remarks will conclude the program at 5:15 and a reception will be held from 5:30-6:30.

Early Education: Problems and Prospects—Sharon Lynn Kagan and Edward Zigler

Issues of Equity, Standards, and School Policy—Richard Rothstein: Can Schools Close the Achievement Gap?

Charles V. Willie: The Real Crisis in Education: Linking Excellence and Equity

Class, Race, and Ethnic Identities—Walter Feinberg: Rethinking the Educational Challenge of Race and Class

Emilie Vanessa Siddle Walker: Where Do We Go Without the Network of Black Educators?

Re-envisioning Schools—Deborah Meier, Nancy Faust Sizer, Ted Sizer: Keeping School: Principals' Responsibility to Families and its Implication for What a Truly Public School Must Be

The advance registration fee of $25 includes a box lunch and refreshments.#

For further information, contact Jane Fineberg at (914)-395-2630, or e-mail jfindberg@slc.edu. Sarah Lawrence College's Child Development Institute was established in

1987 to develop programs for early childhood and elementary school teachers, administrators, child development professionals, parents and the community at large.

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