The Effects of High-Stakes Testing on the Economy and the Educational System 
Wicked Policy for Massachusetts and the Nation

Dr. David C. Berliner, Regents Professor in the College of Education at Arizona State University and co-author of Collateral Damage:  How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America’s Schools, will synthesize background literature on high stakes testing and combine it with the latest research on testing practices and press accounts of  the reactions  to NCLB testing policies from teachers, administrators, parents, and students, to support their contention that high-stakes testing, far from having the uplifting effects promised, instead undermines the eduational system and corrupts those who are touched by it.

February 12, 4:30 p.m. in McGuinn Hall, Room 121, Boston College

Closing the Achievement Gap for Latino Students:  What Does It Take?

Speaker:      Eugene Garcia, Vice President, Education Partnerships, Arizona State Univeristy, Tempe, AZ
February 14, 4:00-6:00  p.m.
Wheelock Family Theater, 200 The Riverway, Boston

Anti-Bias/Anti-Racist Education for All Children

Speaker:    Louise Derman Sparks, Professor Emeritus, Pacific Oaks College and Children’s School, Pasadena, CA
March 12, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Boston Children’s Museum, 300 Congress Street, Boston

Series sponsored by:  Boston Children’s Museum, Boston Public Schools Center for Leadership Development, The Center for Collaborative Education, Constance and Lewis Counts, Lesley University, Boston Plan for Excellence, TERC, Simmons College, Wheelock College

Understanding the Social, Emotional and Learning Lives of Black Male Students
Wheelock College
March 13-14

"To Be Male, In School and Black: Connections and Consequences of Teacher Beliefs and Practice"
Free lecture: Thursday, March 13, 2008, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

All day workshop: Friday, March 14, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

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