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Richard Kahlenberg on Albert Shanker
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) in partnership with The Century Foundation cordially invites you to attend a breakfast discussion on Richard Kahlenberg's new book, "Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy". The discussion will take place on November 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the East Side Marriott in New York City (525 Lexington Avenue, at 49th Street). Breakfast will be available at 8:30 a.m. The program begins at 9 a.m. In addition to the author, panelists will include: Eugenia Kemble, the Executive Director of the Albert Shanker Institute; Sol Hurwitz, CED President Emeritus; Dr. Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education; Bella Rosenberg, former Shanker advisor; and Randi Weingarten, President of the United Federation of Teachers. The discussion will be moderated by Richard Leone, President of the Century Foundation.
In his 1973 comedy Sleeper, Woody Allen depicted teacher union leader Albert Shanker as the man who destroyed the world. In Tough Liberal, however, Albert Shanker is described as a complex and visionary figure whose life story offers timely lessons for contemporary debates over education, labor, civil rights, foreign policy, and the future of liberalism. Albert Shanker, the legendary president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 to 1997, was a founding father of modern teacher unionism and a leading advocate of education reform. Although a staunch unionist, he was also a strong proponent of standards-based reform, teacher-led charter schools, and the professionalization of teaching. Shanker had an unusual ability to work with both liberals and conservatives and a unique world view that stood firmly for public schools and trade unionism on the one hand, but departed from traditional liberal orthodoxies on issues like affirmative action, bilingual education, and national security on the other.
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CHANGE 2009: Cycle 1
TCF fellows share their expectations of the new Obama Administration
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Reinventing American Global Leadership
Do even Republicans now see Bush as a "bully" in foreign policy? Has Iraq soured the American public decisively against military intervention, whether for humanitarianism or for oil? What kind of "global leadership" are Americans willing to support? Republican pollster Bill McInturff offers some surprising answers.
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Private Military Contractors out of Control?
The September 2007 controversy surrounding the activities of the American military contractor Blackwater have added urgency to discussions of the role of private military contractors assisting American operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. What are the legal, ethical, political, and military implications of augmenting America's uniformed military with large numbers of civilian combatants? Was the Nisoor Square incident involving Blackwater an aberrant event, or symptomatic of deeper and more intractable problems associated with having large numbers of private contractors undertaking security functions in a conflict zone? And if greater accountability for private military contractors is required, what form should that accountability take? Should contractors be allowed to self-police? Should they be subject to the domestic criminal law of the country in which they are deployed? Should they be brought within the Uniform Code of Military Justice?
The Century Foundation foundation called together a group of distinguished panelists to address this issue. They included Doug Brooks, a representative of the security industry; Jon Finer, an Iraq correspondent for the Washington Post, who has written about private contractors; T.S. Sowers, a Special Forces Captain with two tours in Iraq who teaches American politics at West Point; José Luis Gomez del Prado, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on the use of Mercenaries; and Patrick Radden Keefe, who has written about the privatization of national security for the New York Times and the New York Review of Books.
For transcripts and additional video please visit: http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?ty<wbr>pe=EV&pubid=205
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The Conservatives Have No Clothes
A lunch forum for journalists and opinion leaders to discuss The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing, a new book by Greg Anrig, published by John Wiley & Sons. Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor at the New Yorker, and Eric Alterman, author and columnist, will join the panel to offer their assessments of Greg's important book, and to discuss his ideas as they relate to the ongoing presidential campaign. Greg Anrig is the vice president for policy at The Century Foundation.
Visit http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?ty<wbr>pe=EV&pubid=196 for more information.
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The Century Foundation, founded in 1919 by the progressive businessman Edward A. Filene, is a nonprofit public policy research institution committed to the belief that a mix of effective government, open democracy, and free markets is the most effective solution to the major challenges facing the United States.
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