2015 Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Lecture: Policy, INEQUALITY, and Schools
Thursday, June 4, 2015
4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
The ARCH Auditorium, Room 208
3601 LOCUST WALK, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104
Convener
Dr. John W. Fantuzzo
Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
Speaker
Dr. David K. Cohen
John Dewey Collegiate Professor, School of Education
Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
A nationally recognized authority on educational reform, David Cohen's current research interests include educational policy, the relations between policy and instruction, and the improvement of teaching. His past work has included studies of the effects of schooling, various efforts to reform schools and teaching, the evaluation of educational experiments and large-scale intervention programs, and the relations between research and policy.
The Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation. The foundation supports activities that carry on the humanitarian vision of the late Mr. Greenfield, who chaired the board of Bankers Securities Corporation and the Philadelphia Planning Commission.