And constructive disagreements. But are hoping to help universities achieve education and research. Also to have that informal and serendipitous connection but in 2014 inviting me to lunch to present with a crazy idea that was one of the most colistin important ideas of the last five years that strange stuff is happening on campus and students requesting protections from speech they had the idea they are girding to think in the same distorted ways he learned he has not to do while in therapy. We submitted to the lancet published 2015. It provoked discussion so we can go back to our day jobs. But a couple weeks later all hell broke loose. [laughter] and then jailed and everywhere else. So that was one strand of that what brought us here. But by complete coincidence that we had founded Heterodox Academy also in september 2015 all at the same time and had nothing to do with anything else. That was just an early member. We what thinking hour and undergrads situation so we launched Heterodo
Programs aimed exactly as you are suggesting. Let me try to get some others in. Okay. Go ahead. A lot of other people want to say something. When i was i was growing up there were no outreach programs no outreach programs. Today every organization i belong to has an outreach program. I do think there is Civic Engagement. University the Aspen Institute the portrait gallery, everyone has an outreach program. Why do you say there is no Civic Engagement . Well, i dont want to be badmouthing outreach programs, but we used to do it without calling you. Most of us are no longer doing outreach. I dont mean formal outreach a the little old lady with her fur coat and for had. My black us may down to the high school. The mind boggles. She wouldve never said im doing outreach. She was is helping one of the kids in town. You. You know in a way that was a more formalized way of trying to make up for the fact that we used to do this a ton more. Yes, right there in the aisle. Thank you. Could you talk
No one mreefb believes it will creep up slowly. The higher the temperature gets the more the Tipping Point the more events happen that will make it more dramatic. You can watch this and other programs online. Robert putnam reports on the lack of opportunities for children growing up in the United States today and questions whether the American Dream is dead. His book is our kids. All right. Everybody. Welcome. Can where ask everybody to take their seats, please. I thank you all for being here. This is a particular important book talk. I know to thank alvin and others who helped sponsor this. Your daughter, all of the people thank you for doing this. This is an important book talk because this is most important book you can read this year. In fact it may be the most important book you read this decade because the growing Economic Opportunity gap is the biggest political and moral and economic issue of our time. I want to make sure everybody afterwards gets a books from politics and pros
That is not yet entirely politicized. In this polarized World Without the shock i noted people in the city but the most comprehensive Early Childhood Education Program in america is in oklahoma which is a deep red state so thats something we could do. Theres smaller things that we could do like mentoring for kids, and they dont mean drop by mentoring. The crucial thing but mentoring you know this is not have lunch once a year and say how are things going. You got to be in their lives supporting them, providing them with, helping provide them with these airbags and so on which i know you are doing and that would make a big difference. Frankly as i say in the book, the fact that School Boards without even thinking about the consequences have instituted a aaa for what was once everybody in america thought it was part of what you got when you got a public second education, he also got his soft skills for football, bank and course and zone. Go to your school board and ask if you pay to dela
Of books in any big library, and you got a lot of competition. The first thing you want to do, if youre an author, is to at least have somebody pick up the book. And so when i was thinking of a title issue thousand what i can title this book that would get somebody to take a peek, read the first paragraph. And i thought, well, nigger. Nigger is a strange career of a trouble selfword. And i thought that would just think hard about words, think hard about examples, get the readers attention. Thats what i was trying to do with the title. Up next on booktv, afterwords with guest host, the president of the National Alliance of public charter schools. This week, sol month and his book, the one world schoolhouse. In it, presenting the benefits of online universal education for primary and secondary School Students and discussings his Career Change to public educator. Host hi, sal, tell us about the book and the journey you went that led you to writing the book . Guest the book is about the jo