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For other great events like this. Now on cspan2 booktv, more television for serious readers. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. My name is ian rowe, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise institute and the Thomas P Ford institute. Most importantly, for todays discussion i am the ceo of public prep, a network of public charter elementary and middle school located in the heart of the south bronx and Lower East Side of manhattan. Its my honor to welcome you to what i believe will be a very provocative discussion on compelling new book how to educate an american the conservative vision for tomorrows schools, published by templeton press. Moore joined today by a fantastic group of panelists beginning with Michael Petrilli and chester finn respectively the pr ....
Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth are here with us today courtesy of tom and margaret mr. Garrett graduated from harvard in 1963. He has had a 30 year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a nephd in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisms, to universities. The authors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome avto kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us. The book is called the last negroes at harvard, 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, thats what we were called then, we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all di ....
Featuring dennis baron and conversation they are here to discuss dennis new book, what your pronoun. The book is going to be for purchase outside after the program and dennis will be signing books. All proceeds from your purchase will go to benefit the new york Public Library. Before i introduce our wonderful discussion i want to highlight some of the amazingou events we have coming up this season. Tomorrowng we have poets joins with friends to read from their brilliant new collection of poems. On valentines day, we have our largest public event Series Library after hours the citys most cerebral happyci hour. [laughter] therapy poetry readings, trivia and interactive collections displayed with picture collection and more. Bring yourself, bring a lover, bring a friend you want to turn into a lever. [laughter] to our special edition of library after hours. On favorite 25th, we ....