Agenda, dwight jones, my counterpart with mcgraw hill education, who is not here as he is currently serving on his Civic Responsibility of jury duty. I mentioned who is not here but in my brief introduction i would like to share with you how i, we, mcgraw hill education, got here. At the third annual urban Superintendent Academy with asa, and with the opportunity to introduce our next keynote speaker, dr. Mark fidel. You see the role that dwight jones and i work is identify Strategic Partnerships with National Alliances that also align to the core values and mission of our company. For example, as we began four years ago, our transformation from a 125yearold Publishing Company to a learning science company, we identified with one of our longtime partners, aasa, with their work on Digital Learning and transformation and as a result of this alignment we took a lead role, an active partial with their digital and personalized learning symposiums. So our partnership continued and quite hone
Cable provider. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. I would like to start by thanking everybody for being here at our very first event at busboys and poet politician and pros as we embark on our first and this is a very wonderful readings. At this tile i would like to remind you to turn off your cell phones, any noisemaking devices. Thank you so much. Feel free to order food or drinks. As of tonights reading there will be question and answer. I will come and give you a microphone and after the question and answer session we will have a signing right over here. My name is christopher gregs and i welcome you on behalf of politics and prose bookstore and on behalf of our amazing staff. They do have 500 events a year spread aupon politics and prose like this one in our store in connecticut avenue and different venues across the city. We have cspan tonight, so if you would like to see events like these that we have done in the fast and going forward, feel free to subscribe to
Producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime. I dont know how many people have any connection to any of the prisons in illinois, but my guess is that they are fairly distant to many of us. Prisons are in many ways Huge Industry in illinois and at the center of the criminal Justice System here. Although you both come at the issue from different angles, id like too first talk about how you came to the subject. Baz. So, i was i actually in a strange way came through journalism. Was doing a lot of writing for main stream publications about crime and pop culture and th
Good afternoon, im steve mills, reporter the talk tribune tied we talk about prison, the astounding growth of the prison population in america and the roll prisons play in society and how that might change in the future mitchell guests are Baz Dreisinger and Elizabeth Hinton. Baz is the author of incarceration nation a she visited prisons in Nine Countries to better understand our attitudes towards crime, punishment and incarceration. A professor at john j. College in new york, baz is also a journalist, film and radio producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime.
And welcome. Were going to talk about cold war educational films, made even a classroom. Weve talked about classroom for. To do any history of classroom film, you have to understand the colors the scholarship. I will be pulling together works that i have done and from other historians. Scholars, even folklorists. This will be particularly interdisciplinary. For reasons that should by now be obvious, the topic is interdisciplinary. In particular im going to return to this question. What are the relations between art, science, and entertainment and culture, in cinema . How do they reinforce one another in these particular context . Were going to see the movement of people across institutions. Its all going to be living together. We have to consider what is the scientific and Technical Knowledge . To understand this historically, we have to how Science Education is with a product and driver of culture. What i mean is that any form of Science Education is going to great attitudes and appro