FRAMING A NEW CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF BLACK YOUTH
by Dr. Charles Payne  (http://www.raceandeducation.com/)

March 18:   Education for Liberation—Rationale

March 19:   Education for Liberation—Teaching the Black Freedom Struggle

April 6:   the Achievement and Development of Black Boys

 April 7:   The Power of Social Support in the Achievement and Development of Black and Latino Youth

 All of the lectures are scheduled for 4:00 pm, at Simmons College, in the Linda K. Paresky Conference Center.

For more information, email theresa.perry@simmons.edu

ABOUT PROFESSOR CHARLES M. PAYNE
Dr. Charles M. Payne, the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, an award-winning author, one of the nation’s most prominent scholars of the study of urban school reform and social inequality. He has written an award-winning history of the modern civil rights movement and authored one of the most provocative books on urban school reform. Dr. Payne recently completed two books: So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools (April 2008) and Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African American Tradition (March 2008). Among Payne’s other works are I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (2nd ed., 2007) and Debating the Civil Rights Movement (2nd ed., 2006).