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3 Reasons Next Week May Be an Historic Turning Point in Public Education Reform
Secretary Arne Duncan, Dan Domenech, Randi Weingarten

 

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Next week hundreds of teams of school board presidents, school superintendents and teacher union leaders will converge at a "collaboration" conference in Denver. The event is being called historic by some education leaders. It is also being compared to the unprecedented breaking down of barriers among traditional adversaries that was orchestrated at this year's State of The Union address. Even some traditional cynics are acknowledging that next week could indeed be an historic turning point in public education. In this pre-event interview, we go behind the scenes and speak candidly with three of the key organizers.

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Freeman"One of the problems with minority education at the university level is that often people think well if it's a problem with minority students then you have minority staff to work on that... I would argue that when we talk about issues of women or minorities that these are American issues and we need people of all types both genders and all races involved."

 

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III is President of UMBC (The University of Maryland, Baltimore County).   Five Innovative Strategies to Engage Minorities In STEM


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