Transcripts of Past Askwith Forums at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Transcripts of Past Askwith Education Forums

The Harvard Graduate School of Education invites a number of educators, researchers, community activists, and policymakers from across the country to talk about such topics as school violence, multiple intelligences, teaching science, and the politics of school reform. We are pleased to be able to provide you with edited transcripts of some of the past talks. For further information on the Askwith Education Forums, please click here.

March/April 2002: Dennis Littky and Eliot Levine: One Kid at a Time: Big Lessons From A Small School

January/February 2002: Ron Unz and Catherine Snow: Bilingual Education: A Necessary Help or a Failed Hindrance?

November/December 2001: Ray Kurzweil and Howard Gardner: Technology, the Brain, and the Future

September/October 2001: Peter Senge: Who's in Control? Humanity and Technology in the 21st Century

July/August 2001: Jane Katch: Under Deadman's Skin

May/June 2001: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Reverend Eugene Rivers: "The Making of Encarta Africana and the Digital Divide"

March/April 2001: "Casualties of Reform": Diane Ravitch on Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms

January/February 2001: "The Changing Brain," featuring an introduction by Kurt Fischer, Director of Mind, Brain, and Education Program, HGSE, and remarks by Marion Diamond, Professor at UC-Berkeley

November/December 2000: "The Homework Wars," featuring Etta Kralovec and John Buell, with remarks by Kim Marshall and Janine Bempechat

September/October 2000 Deborah Meier: Will Standards Save Public Education?

July/August 2000: Jane Fonda speaks on Global Education for Girls and Women"

May/June 2000: "Testing Mania: Good Intentions Gone Awry," featuring Nicholas Lemann, Ted Sizer, Linda Nathan, and Angela Valenzuela