Thursday, November 18, 2010

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Pedro Noguera at the Fall Forum

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Pedro Noguera at the Fall Forum

Pedro Noguera at the Fall Forum

"Nothing changed" at the DOE

Sadly, I couldn't make it to the Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum this year. So I was much interested inthis report from the Forum on Education and Democracy and particularly on Pedro Noguera's keynote speech.
Pedro Noguera has had plenty of access to Obama administration policy makers. In fact, he sat down with 50 people from the U.S. Department of Education, who listened to his thoughts for 90 minutes.

"Then I left and nothing changed," Noguera, a Convener with The Forum for Education and Democracy, said in an opening address last week at the Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum. "I realized that the Obama administration was staying the course not just in Afghanistan,