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Assessing Literacy: Exploring the Reader's Mind and Heart

April 7, 2005

Robert Calfee professor, education, UC Riverside

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann moderator, dean, HGSE

Roselmina Indrisano professor, education, BU

Robert Calfee discusses the importance of effective teaching and active research regarding reading and accessing literacy. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education and Dean, provides an introduction to the lecture.

Topics: Education | Health & Happiness

Tags: Classroom & Community | Literacy & Testing | Teacher Education

Presented By WGBH and Harvard Graduate School of Education:

Poverty and Social Justice Challenges in the US: Part II

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, discuss the social, economic, and educational challenges facing this country. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert moderates.

Poverty and Social Justice Challenges in the US: Part I

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, discuss the social, economic, and educational challenges facing this country. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert moderates.

Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?

Lecture Seventeen: "Arguing Affirmative Action"

Arthur: When a Child Knows Someone with Cancer

Experts in the field of pediatric health and education screen and discuss the Arthur episode “The Great MacGrady".

Getting to Graduation: Supporting Students to Mastery

In March 2003, the Rennie Center sponsored a public event to discuss the Commonwealth's strategy for supporting students in the Class of 2003 who would not graduate because they failed MCAS.

Hollowing Out the Middle: Rural Brain Drain

Patrick J. Carr

Sociology professor Patrick J. Carr discusses Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means For America.

A Generation of Women: Education in the Lives of Progressive Reformers

Author: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

Publisher: Harvard University Press (1979)

Binding: Hardcover, 215 pages

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