Happening This Week
Dear readers, I want to personally invite you all to attend two terrific events happening on the UW-Madison campus this week. I will be speaking at both and hope to see many of you there. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Department of Educational Policy Studies will be holding its annual conference. The topic is The Obama Education Agenda: Principles, Policies, and Prospects . The speaker for the opening session, Tuesday night at 7 pm at the Union Theater, is none other than Diane Ravitch . (You can bet Liam is excited!) She will be talking about "The Future of Public Education." On Wednesday there will be several panels and a lunchtime session featuring former Wisconsin congressman David Obey . You might've seen the video of Dave attempting to get into the Wisconsin State Capitol building recently -- I sure hope he talks about that. Take a look at the full agenda , and note that the title for my talk has been revised -- I will now be speaking on Saving Public Higher Ed...