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BOOK TALK: Black Educational ChoiceFebruary 01, 2012
'Black Educational Choice: Assessing the Private and Public Alternatives to Traditional K-12 Public Schools' Featuring: Penn Professor Emerita Diana Slaughter-Defoe, Penn Professor Howard Stevenson, Dr. Edith Arrington, Penn Professor Peter Kuriloff. All events at the Penn Bookstore are free and open to the public.
“Black Educational Choice” provides parents, citizens, educators and policymakers the knowledge they need to help diversify K-12 school choice beyond traditional neighborhood public schools. Panelists will lead a focused discussion on the achievement gap and strategies to improve school choice in the black community.
Slaughter-Defoe is the Constance E. Clayton Professor Emerita in Urban Education at Penn. Stevenson is associate professor of education and former chair of the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division in the Graduate School of Education at Penn. Arrington is a licensed psychologist and a senior project manager at the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning in Philadelphia. Kurilo! is Professor, Foundations and Practices of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Penn.
This event is sponsored by the Martin Luther King Symposium
Committee at Penn.
3601 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-7595
www.upenn.edu/bookstore |
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