Ford Hall Forum Recordings
Dr. Thomas Payzant: The Role of Public Education and the Common Good, audio recording, 11 May 2006
Files
Identifier
MS113AV-0205
Collection Number
Ford Hall Forum Collection, 1908-2013 (MS113): Series 3.1 Recordings
Description
Dr. Thomas Payzant, Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools since 1995; Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Education (1993-1995), takes a hard look at the role of public schools in serving the common good. Is an increasingly negative view of government that has been growing in American society at odds with the expectations for what public schools must accomplish? Are public school districts asked to do too much? Is there an intimate connection between the compelling issues of social justice and the role of public schools, and is this connection more at risk today than any time in the past hundred years? Dr. Payzant will draw upon forty years of working to improve teaching and learning in public education to examine these and other questions.
Subject Heading
Forums (Discussion and debate); Ford Hall Forum
Date
5-11-2006
Keywords
Ford Hall Forum
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Recommended Citation
Payzant, Thomas, "Dr. Thomas Payzant: The Role of Public Education and the Common Good, audio recording, 11 May 2006" (2006). Ford Hall Forum Recordings. 145.
https://dc.suffolk.edu/fhf-av/145