When discussing the purposes of secondary education, policymakers often speak of a trio of aims: High schools should prepare all students for college, careers, and civic life. But, in truth, while major recent reform initiatives have focused a great deal of attention on the first of those goals—ensuring that students become “college ready”—they have done relatively little to determine how best to prepare young people for productive working lives and active citizenship.
Please join us for a lively discussion of what it means, and what it will take, to provide all students with genuine opportunities not only to become ready for college but also, and just as important, to learn about and participate in work and civic life.
Panelists:
Nancy Hoffman
Jobs for the Future and Harvard Graduate School of Education
Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg
CIRCLE, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Services at Tufts University
Peter Levine
CIRCLE, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Services at Tufts University
Moderator:
Jal Mehta
Harvard Graduate School of Education