Peg Tyre to Speak at Rippowam Cisqua School

Peg Tyre, a nationally renowned writer and thinker about education, will visit Rippowam Cisqua School on Wednesday, May 28th, as part of the School's Foundations of Education Lecture Series. Ms. Tyre is the bestselling author of The Trouble With Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School and What Parents & Educators Must Do. She will speak at Rippowam about "The Underachievement of Boys in School: How Do We Help Them and Still Support Our Terrific Girls?" 

The lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will take place in the Playhouse on the Rippowam Cisqua School Upper Campus (439 Cantitoe Street, Bedford, NY  10506). The lecture is free and open to the public.

Ms. Tyre spent two decades in journalism, writing cover stories for Newsweek and features and analysis for the New York Times. At the start of her career, as a newspaper reporter, she was part of a group of reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize. She was twice nominated for a National Magazine Award (the magazine industry equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize). She has discussed her ideas on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, Anderson Cooper and NPR. She has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Emory and the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. 

Ms. Tyre's visit is part of Rippowam Cisqua School’s Foundations of Education Series, a series of informative discussions with experts in the field of education and parenting. These discussions are designed to offer parents insights and strategies for raising successful, lifelong learners. The lectures are free and open to the public. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Ryan Smith at 914-244-1292 or ryan_smith@rcsny.org.