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With Lisa Guernsey (Deputy Dir. Education Policy, New America), Ruby Takanishi (ex-CEO, Fdn for Child Development & Author, First Things First), Nikole Hannah-Jones (Staff Writer, NY Times Mag), Dana Goldstein (Author, Teacher Wars).
Mon, Oct 24, 2016 @ 06:30 PM   FREE   Civic Hall, 156 Fifth Ave, 2nd Fl
 
     
 
 
              

      
 
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In half of all New York City pre-K classrooms, more than 70 percent of children come from a single racial or ethnic group. Nationally, 66 percent of all fourth-graders and a staggering 80 percent of those from low-income and English learner backgrounds scored "below proficient" in reading. Piecemeal education reforms make clear the Great Equalizer hasnt lived up to its promise.

Despite major changes across society in the past 50 years, the classroom scene children enter into this year would look oddly familiar to their grandparents. As the U.S. population experiences robust demographic, linguistic, and cultural shifts, its education system has remained a static structure detached from the communities it serves. As Nikole Hannah-Jones articulated in her New York Times Magazine cover story, the impact shouldn't come as a surprise: wide achievement and resource gaps are usurping opportunity, with large percentages of black, Hispanic, and low-income children labeled as underperformers before they even enter kindergarten.

In a new book, First Things First!, Dr. Ruby Takanishi argues that policymakers, reformers, educators, and citizens have tried and largely failed to forge a consensus that universal access to quality early education is a public responsibility. Disinvestment, in pre-K and through all primary education levels, is the root cause for why the U.S.'s education system and our socioeconomic standing in the global economy has become a civil and human rights imperative disregarded for too long.

Join New America's Education Policy Program for a discussion on how we can create a twenty-first century education system that gets a child's first ten years of learning off to a stronger and more equal start.
 
 
 
 
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