And the brooks still worth reading. Thank you for your time and good nights been a good afternoon. I want to welcome you on the half of humanity tennessee to the southern festival of books. I want to particularly thank our key sponsors, Metro National art commission, and chrome content, tennessee art commission, vanderbilt university. This session is entitled dreaming america. We have a panel of three authors and three books and our first we will read some, but im going to reduce the authors first. I will begin with amra sabicelrayess. She grew up in bosnia. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the serbs military siege she immigrated to the United States in 1986. By december, 1999, she earned a ba from Brown University and later obtained to master degrees in a doctorate from Columbia University currently, shes a compass a professor eric on the egg working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education plays a rebuilding decimated cou
600 thousand children go to public Elementary Schools in new york city. These children vary in their intellectual abilities. The city has its share of boys and girls who show great intellectual promise. This winning essay was selected among 7000 entries in the annual United Nations essay contest. The bronze high school of science has had 100 winners since 1958 in its annual social studies contest, more than any high school in the country. Although new york city has less than 2 of the nations population, we account for 28 of the finalists in the National Westinghouse talent search. Some of these Outstanding Young men and women undoubtedly have been helped in their careers by a star in the intellectually Gifted Program in the Elementary Schools. This program is for children who show great intellectual promise. While it is not new, not every Elementary School has classes for gifted children. When there are not enough peoples in the local school to form this special class, a Central School
Are you right now . Im in california doing just fine. I heard a funny line, not sure if im working at home or living at work. I am finding this a time when ive been pretty productive, able to do everything remotely. Tried to keep up my exercise routine, practicing the panel to i have been director of the Hoover Institution but the time off the road, not on airplanes allowed me to make us move transition. Ali and all, keeping in touch with friends and family by text, really quite okay. 2020, even though you are being modest about it. This is a year like no other, first and foremost the pandemic, and another 700 people lost their lives around the world, the bloated us economy, tens of millions of americans, many going hungry, protests for Racial Justice after the death of george floyd, wildfires right now across the western United States, deadly reminder of Climate Change and as we are here to discuss the interruption in education and questions about this falls election if we didnt need
In the Ronald Reagan Educational Foundation summit. She talked about racial inequality, trust in government and political stability. Elex i am so lucky to be joined by the woman you see in the other panel who needs no introduction. The former secretary of state is now the director of the Hoover Institute of stanford university, doctor condoleezza rice. Im so glad to have this opportunity to talk with you for the next 35, 40 minutes. On behalf of the Reagan Institute. Im really honored to be part of todays conversation and you have this chance to speak with doctor rice. I have to start on a personal note though. We are living in such a stressful time, how are you doing . How are you holding up . Where are you right now . I am in california. And i am doing just fine. Like most workers i am able to work from home. Although i did hear very funny line the other day, im not sure from working at home or living at work. Im finding this time when i am actually pretty productive. I able to do al
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