University of Louisville Dean Ann Larson is co-chair of an April 11 Presidential Session at the 2016 (AERA) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
The gathering draws more than 14,000 educational researchers, faculty, deans, and higher education administrators worldwide.
The session, 鈥淭he Power of Public Scholarship to Transform Policy and Practice,鈥 will feature four recipients of the University of Louisville 聽鈥 Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Fullan, Andy Hargreaves and Diane Ravitch 鈥 for a panel discussion about their award-winning ideas and experiences working with policymakers and practitioners to prompt educational change. Valerie Strauss, education reporter for The Washington Post and session co-chair, will moderate the discussion.
received the 2012 Grawemeyer Award for her book, 鈥淭he Flat World and 成人直播: How America鈥檚 Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future,鈥 in which she presents her theory that the United States no longer leads the world in education because it spends far less on low-income and minority students than it does on affluent students. Her research showed that although nations in Europe and Asia fund schools centrally and equally, the wealthiest American school districts spend nearly 10 times more than the poorest.
鈥檚 book, 鈥淭he Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining 成人直播,鈥 earned her the 2014 Grawemeyer Award.聽 The work chronicles her decades-long journey from reform advocate to critic and encourages a return to school curriculums that value art, literature, creativity and problem solving.
received the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in 成人直播 for ideas outlined in their book, 鈥淧rofessional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School.鈥 They found that placing teachers in a team environment that encourages individual contributions, group interactions and continuous learning is a more effective approach than using performance-based education models to reward or punish individual teachers.
UofL presents the annual Grawemeyer Awards for outstanding works in music composition, ideas improving world order, psychology and education and gives a religion prize jointly with Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Feature photo courtesy of
