Dominican University’s School of Education will host a screening of “Waiting for Superman,” the controversial and acclaimed documentary on the state of America’s public schools, followed by a discussion with former Chicago Public Schools Interim Chief Education Officer Charles Payne. The event will be held on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., in the Lund Auditorium on Dominican’s Main Campus, 7900 Division Street, River Forest.
Payne was named interim Chief Education Officer of Chicago Public Schools in February 2011, on loan from his position as the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. He is one of the country’s foremost academics in the area of urban education reform, having created and led a number of community, curriculum and research initiatives to help struggling schools. He also has written extensively on urban education, civil rights and African American history, including his 2008 book “So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools.”
“Waiting for Superman,” focusing largely on the charter school system in New York City and the model of the Harlem Children’s Zone, is widely credited with reigniting the education debate in American after its release in 2010. It received several awards including Best Documentary from both the National Board of Review and the Critics Choice Awards.
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The event is part of the SOE’s Signature Seminar Series, which has also featured a film screening of award-winning documentary “Louder Than a Bomb” and a lecture by education reformer Deborah Meier. The series will conclude on April 16, 2012 with gala event honoring difference makers in education.
For more information visit www.dom.edu/soe/signatureseries or contact Marilyn Ludolph, associate dean of the School of Education, at (708) 524-6695 or mludolph@dom.edu.
