Award Winning Friends of Public Education Speak About Their Commitment to Public Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Many educational organizations honor individuals as “Friends of Public Education.” Organizations like the NEA and the Horace Mann League do so in the USA, but organizations in Scotland, Canada and other nations do the same. This symposium will bring a number of these awardees, and directors of organizations that give such awards, to talk about their strong beliefs in public educational systems when public institutions of all kinds— prisons, highways, bridges, as well as schools—are under political pressures to become private organizations. This symposium will give each organization and awardee a chance to express the commitments they have made to being a “Friend of Public Education” in perilous times.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Andy Hargreaves, Boston College

Participants

• Annie Kidder, People for Education

• Christopher James Chapman, University of Glasgow

• Pedro A. Noguera, University of California, Los Angeles

• Pasi Sahlberg, University of New South Wales

• Diane Ravitch, New York University

• David C. Berliner, Arizona State University

• Charles Pascal, University of Toronto