The Loyola Marymount University School of Education, in Partnership with the Forum For

The Loyola Marymount University School of Education, in partnership with the Forum for Education and Democracy,cordially invites you to a Forum on Education, February 12-13.

Given the current educational climate in Los Angeles, the following topics will be discussed at different events throughout the two days: Democratic Purpose of Public Education, Small Learning Communities in Urban School Districts and Urban Education. Forum conveners include Linda Darling-Hammond, Debbie Meier and George Wood.

Following is the schedule for the Forum:

Monday, Feb. 12

Vision of SLCs to Transform Urban School Districts

Time: 2-4 p.m.

Where: Hilton 100, Loyola Marymount University

Democratic Purpose of Public Education and NCLB

Time: 4:30-6 p.m.

Where: Hilton 100, Loyola Marymount University

Reception/Book Signing

Time: 6-7 p.m.

Where: McIntosh 3999, Loyola Marymount University

Tuesday, Feb. 13

Practical Issues in Creating SLCs

Time: 10-Noon

Where: Hilton 100, Loyola Marymount University

School Reform and Implications for Schools, Colleges of Education

Time: 4:30-6 p.m.

Where: Hilton 100, Loyola Marymount University

Reception

Time: 6-7 p.m.

Where: Collins Center, Loyola Marymount University

For more information about the Forum for Democracy, please visit:

For directions to LMU, please visit:

To join us, please RSVP to

Manuela Flores

310.258.8768

Conveners Bios

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. Professor Darling-Hammond has also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. Prior to Stanford, Darling-Hammond was the William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. There, she was the founding Executive Director of the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future, the blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, catalyzed major policy changes across the United States to improve the quality of teacher education and teaching. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of teaching quality, school reform, and educational equity. Among her more than 200 publications is The Right to Learn, recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award for 1998, and Teaching as the Learning Profession (co-edited with Gary Sykes), recipient of the National Staff Development Council’s Outstanding Book Award for 2000.

Deborah Meier has spent nearly four decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer and public advocate. The elementary and secondary schools she helped create serve predominantly low income African-American and Latino students; these schools are considered exemplars of performance-based home-grown standards. She is the author of popular books such as The Power of Their Ideas and In Schools We Trust,principal emeritusof Mission Hill School in Boston, a leader of the Coalition for Essential Schools, and is currently a senior scholar at NYU's Steinhart School of Education. Her website is at

George Wood is the director of the Forum for Education and Democracy and the Principal of Federal Hocking High School in Stewart, Ohio. He has published numerous papers and articles on the role of public schooling in democracies. The author of Schools That Work and the editor of Many Children Left Behind, his most recentbookis the second edition of A Time To Learn: How to Create High Schools That Serve All Students.