League of Women Voters of South San Mateo County - Education Lecture

School Reform in the U.S.: Is There Hope?

Deborah Stipek, Professor of Education
Stanford University

Deborah Stipek has just retired from 10 years as Dean of the School of Education at Stanford. Dr. Stipek's scholarship concerns instructional effects on children's achievement motivation, early childhood education, elementary education and school reform. In addition to her scholarship, she has an interest in policies affecting children and education. She served for five years on the Board on Children, Youth and Families at the National Research Council; she was the Chair of National Research Council Committee for Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn and she directed the MacArthur Foundation Network on Teaching and Learning.

Dr. Stipek's current research is on achievement motivation, on early childhood and elementary education, and on school reform. She was the leader at Stanford involved in setting up the East Palo Alto Academy, a small, neighborhood public high school that is preparing its diverse student body for college and the 21st century workplace. It is a charter public school and was formed to meet the needs of students by combining the most successful models of urban school reform with highly qualified teachers and a curriculum that connects the work of the school to the life of the community.

Join us and bring a friend.
Lecture is open to the public.

For information contact: Ellen Hope, ellenjhope@aol.com