The Riley Institute at Furman and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) will present the second part of its three-part series, \u201cEducation for Life: Working together to fulfill the promise of education,\u201d Tuesday, June 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Younts Conference Center on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n
Part two, \u201cNo Blank Slates: Family, Communities and Success and Failure in K-12,\u201d will focus on strategies for successful school reform and the partnerships in place that help ensure positive student outcomes.<\/p>\n
The cost for the session is $15.<\/p>\n
Headlining the program is Karl Alexander, Ph.D., acclaimed Johns Hopkins sociologist and coauthor of The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood. <\/em>He will discuss findings from his landmark 25-year study of nearly 800 Baltimore school children.<\/p>\n The program also includes Terry Peterson, Ph.D., director, Afterschool and Community Learning Network and Board Chair of the National After School Alliance. Dr. Peterson served in South Carolina as Governor Richard Riley\u2019s education director, and in Washington D.C. as education policy advisor to Riley, who was U.S. Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n Three-minute Snapshot presentations will be given on Spartanburg\u2019s highly successful Cleveland Academy of Leadership; United Way\u2019s federally funded OnTrack Greenville Middle Schools Initiative; Dream Connectors, which exposes middle schoolers to potential manufacturing and health care careers; Youth Apprenticeships, a statewide program of the technical college system; and South Carolina\u2019s New Tech Network.<\/p>\n Sessions are moderated by Scott Henderson, Ph.D., Furman\u2019s William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Education.<\/p>\n Part three of Education for Life continues June 21 and is entitled, \u201cReframing Higher Education for a Changing Society.\u201d<\/p>\n