ADVISORY/School Reform Expert to Speak Before 750 Educators at Cambridge College Colloquium.

Education Writers

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (June 25)

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Cambridge College:

WHAT:   Deborah Meier, urban school reform expert, will speak about
        issues of education reform to 750 public speakers at a
        Cambridge College Colloquium

WHO:    Deborah Meier has spent the past 35 years developing
        successful urban schools. She is co-principal of the
        Mission Hill School, a national demonstration site for a
        successful small urban school. It is part of the Boston
        Pilot school network, a group of Boston public schools
        which are noted for their small size, innovative teaching
        methods, and democratic governance.

        In 1987, she received the MacArthur Genius Award for her work
        starting the Central Park East schools in East Harlem, NY.
        Through her work at the Mission Hill School, she continues
        to provide examples of how a dedicated community of
        teachers, parents, and the larger public can build truly
        effective schools.

        She has written three books, The Power of their Ideas:
        Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem, Will
        Standards Save Public Education, In Schools we Trust:
        Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and
        Standardization.

WHEN:   Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 3 PM

WHERE:  Cambridge College's summer campus, Curry College, Milton, MA
        at the Gymnasium

BACKGROUND:

Cambridge College's Summer Institute brings about 750 public
school teachers from all over the country and abroad to live and learn
together on the Milton-based Curry College campus for five weeks
Students take one intensive course each week. Over 250 courses are
offered. They receive academic support in their professional seminars,
attend colloquia, and participate in workshops. Students are pursing
Master's degrees and Certificates of Advanced Graduate Studies. Weekly
colloquium presentations by experts in adult and urban education are a
core experience for all NITE students each summer.

Since its founding in 1971, Cambridge College has been a national
leader in creating new educational opportunities for adult learners.
The mission of the College is to provide academically excellent, time
efficient, and cost-effective higher education for a diverse
population of working adults for whom those opportunities may have
been limited or denied. Today, Cambridge College is a vibrant
institution with an enrollment of 5,145 full-time and part-time degree
and certificate-seeking students. It has more than 16,000 alumni, the
majority of whom are teachers, counselors, and workers in the human
services and in the business community. Cambridge College is one of
the most diverse learning communities in New England and in the
nation. Students bring a wealth of difference in age, educational
background, professional attainment, race, ethnicity, and language.
Cambridge College awards more Master's degrees in Education to African
Americans than other college in the country.