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Race to the Top: Hope or Flop?

A Community Forum on Public Education
presented at WNED Studios, January 20, 2011,
by the League of Women Voters of Buffalo Niagara

Co-sponsored by
Buffalo State College
American Association of University Women - Buffalo Branch

What role should the federal government have in public education?

Keynote Speaker:

Paul Theobald, Interim Dean of the School of Education, Buffalo State College - Author of Education Now: How Rethinking America's Past Can Change Its Future, 2010 Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association

Panelists:

Donald Ogilvie, District Superintendent Erie 1 BOCES
Claity Massey, Director of King Center Charter School
Sam Radford, Vice President of Buffalo Schools District Parent Coordinating Council
Mike Preskop, Regional Staff Director NYSUT

Moderator:

Marian Deutschman, Professor of Communications, Buffalo State College

Introduction:

Lee Tetkowski, Chair, LWVBN Education Committee

Keynote Address
(PDF* 66 KB)


Audio Recording (MP3)

  1. Introduction - Lee Tetkowski and Marian Deutschman
        Size: 7.8 MB Length: 8:21
  2. Keynote Address, Part 1 - Paul Theobold
        Size: 5.2 MB Length: 5:31
  3. Keynote Address, Part 2 - Paul Theobold
        Size: 7.6 MB Length: 8:02
  4. Keynote Address, Part 3 - Paul Theobold
        Size: 7.3 MB Length: 7:50
  5. Panelist - Donald Ogilvie
        Size: 10.7 MB Length: 11:22
  6. Panelist - Claity Massey
        Size: 9.1 MB Length: 9:44
  7. Panelist - Sam Radford
        Size: 7.3 MB Length: 7:46
  8. Panelist - Mike Preskop
        Size: 11.7 MB Length: 12:26
  9. Questions and Answers, Part 1
        Size: 6.2 MB Length: 6:37
  10. Questions and Answers, Part 2
        Size: 7.8 MB Length: 8:19
  11. Questions and Answers, Part 3
        Size: 8.2 MB Length: 8:42
  12. Wrap Up - Preskop, Radford, Massey, Ogilvie, Theobold
        Size: 11.2 MB Length: 11:57