Grand Valley State University's School of Education continues its annual fall lecture series, Urban Education: Crisis or Opportunity? Tuesday, October 17, with a presentation centered on teaching urban students to read.
The keynote speaker is Robert Slavin, co-director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk at Johns Hopkins University. The free lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Gerald R. Ford Museum, 303 Pearl St. NW in Grand Rapids.
Slavin, the author of 18 educational books, promotes a variety of unconventional methods to teach students to read.
Maribeth Vander Weele, inspector general of Chicago Public Schools, concludes the series Tuesday, October 24, with a talk on improving urban school environments. Vander Weele was a Chicago Tribune reporter and wrote a series of articles on mismanagement and improprieties within the Chicago public school system. This presentation also begins at 7 p.m. at the Ford Museum.
