Great Talk at Baltimore’s Pratt Library : Renewal: Remaking America's Schools for the 21st Century

Great Talk at Baltimore’s Pratt Library

Harold Kwalwasser, October 3, 2012

On September 19th, I spoke at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, MD, as part of its author’s lecture series. The link is below. The discussion is a great introduction to Renewal, Remaking America’s Schools for the 21st Century. I was honored to be introduced by an old friend, Prof. Larry Gibson, a legal scholar at the University of Maryland Law School, whom I first met in 1995 when he hired me as a consultant for the re-election campaign of then Baltimore Mayor, Kurt Schmoke. The introduction runs roughly 10 minutes, but then there is a lively discussion of education issues for the next hour and a quarter. Please enjoy.

http://www.prattlibrary.org/booksmedia/podcasts/index.aspx?id=76355

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