The B.G. Raines Education Forum
The links to our previous speakers are updated periodically. If you find broken links, please let us know.
| List of Previous Speakers by Year |
| 2007 |
Dr. Beth A. Ferri, Associate Professor in Teaching and Leadership and Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University. Dr. Ferri's presentation, Doing a (dis)Service: Reimagining Special Education from a Disability Studies Perspective, focused on the challenges of special Education. Her book, co-written with David J. Connor, Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates, chronicles through newspaper sources how problematic rhetorics of race and disability were used to maintain and justify segregation after the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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| 2006 |
Dr. Mary Abouzeid, Professor of Reading Education at UVA, and Director of the McGuffey/TEMPO Reading Outreach. When the Virginia Department of Education asked Dr. Abouzeid to write the section of our state’s grant on professional development, she became involved in assuring quality for teachers. She became the Principal Investigator of Reading First’s professional development when Virginia received its grant in January of 2003. Websites: http://www.readingfirst.virginia.edu and http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/tempo.
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| 2005 |
Dr. Grant P. Wiggins, President of Grant Wiggins & Associates t/a Authentic Education.
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| 2004 |
Gerald L. Baliles, Sixty-fifth Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia,1986-1990. Governor Baliles spoke on the topic of education and economic development, and provided a file containing his comments at the Forum for those of you who would like to refer to them as well a for those who were not able to attend.
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| 2003 |
Elliot W. Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art at Stanford University, presented a paper, "What Can Education Learn From the Arts about the Practice of Education?"
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| 2002 |
Dr. John I. Goodlad, Professor Emeritus of Education at the
University of Washington and President of the Institute
for Educational Inquiry in Seattle spoke on the topic "Striving for Excellence: The Drive for Quality and What really Counts in Education." |
| 2001 |
Dr. William L. Sanders, Manager, Value-Added Assessment
and Research, SAS in School. Dr. Sanders' address was titled "Teachers Make a Difference: Real Progress For All Students." |
| 2000 |
Dr. E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Professor of Education and
Humanities, University of Virginia, Founder and President, Core Knowledge
Foundation. The topic this year was "Schools for the New Millennium." |
| 1999 |
Dr. Patricia A. Edwards, Professor of Language and
Literacy, National Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement,
Michigan State University |
| 1998 |
Dr. Samuel H. Houston Jr., International Center for Leadership in
Education, Executive Director, North Carolina Standards and Accountability
Commission
Dr. Mary V. Bicouvaris, Associate Professor of Education, Christopher
Newport University; Member of National and Virginia Commissions on
Standards |
| 1997 |
Dr. Mary H. Futrell, Dean, Graduate School of Education and Human
Development, The George Washington University
Dr. Mary Ellen Bafumo, Director of Basic School Network Associated/Carnegie
Foundation |
| 1996 |
Dr. David C. Berliner, author and lecturer, "The
Manufactured Crisis in Education," Professor, Arizona State
University
Dr. Wayne M. Worner, holder of Chair of Excellence, College of Education,
East Tennessee State University
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| 1995 |
Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, Executive
Director, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future,
Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. William C. Bosher, Jr., Virginia Superintendent of Public
Instruction
Honorable James Jones, President, Virginia Board of Education |
| 1994 |
Mr. Harry K. Wong, author and lecturer on effective teaching |
| 1993 |
Dr. Robert E. Slavin, Jr., Center for Research on Effective
Schooling for Disadvantaged Students
Honorable James W. Dyke, Jr., Virginia Secretary of Education |
| 1992 |
Dr. Chester E. Finn, Jr., Director, Educational
Excellence Network
Dr. Joseph A. Spagnolo, Jr., Virginia Superintendent of Public
Instruction |
| 1991 |
Dr.
Willard R. Daggett, author and lecturer on school reform |
| 1990 |
Dr. Ernest
Boyer, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching |
| 1989 |
Dr.
Phillip C. Schlechty, President, The Center for Leadership in School
Reform
Dr. Edward B. Fisk, Education Editor, New York Times |
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