Noted Expert on Urban Schools Visiting SOE

On September 26, 2012, Professor Charles M. Payne will be speaking at the UM-Dearborn School of Education. Dr. Payne is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, where he is also an affiliate of the Urban Education Institute and a member of the Steering Committee for the Consortium on Chicago School Reform.

Dr. Payne is a leading scholar on urban education and school reform, social inequality, social change, and modern African American history. He recently published So Much Reform, So Little Change (Harvard Education Publishing Group) which is concerned with what we have learned about the persistence of failure in urban districts, and an anthology, Teach Freedom: The African American Tradition of Education For Liberation (Teachers College Press), which is concerned with the “Freedom School” education movement.

The talk will be held 4:30-6:00 PM in the Michigan Room, on the 1st floor of the FCS. This talk is open to all as part of the Conversations on Race series and one of several special lectures this fall as part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the formation of the School of Education on this campus.

Please join me in welcoming Professor Payne to our campus!