This promises to be a great conference. We have a terrific group made up of some of the most prominent people in the anti-war, inclusive education, and anti-high stakes test movement in North America. In addition, we combine young, middle, and old, people from three continents, k12 educators, profs, students, and community workers.
The Rouge Forum, as you know, is the only organization in the US that has consistently connected the role of capital, race, and social class with imperialism and the resultant demands to regulate what kids know, and how they come to know it, in schools. We have combined research with action.
Our hope is that this interactive, action-oriented conference will not only offer scintillating presentations, but also bring together good minds in order to deepen our collective activity, as an organization. We have set aside a good deal of time to meet people informally. Sunday is a full day of conversations about what is to be done.
We ask that you circulate the full conference schedule to as many people as you can, personally urging them to attend. That kind of one-to-one work is what builds movements.
More information is available at RougeForum.org. Contact rougeforum@pipeline.com or rgibson2@pipeline.com with questions or for additional information.
All the best, r
Our schedule:
The Rouge Forum presents
Their Wars Left Behind: Education for Action
(National Conference on How to Be Anti-War & Pro-Learning)
THURSDAY, MARCH 1 – SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007
Wayne State University, Manoogian Hall (map)
NW corner of Warren & Third Street, Detroit
Thursday Night (3-1-07)
8:00-Bill Boyer and his infamous Ground Zen at the Zeitgeist. Discussion to follow.
Friday (3-2-07)
9:00-9:30…….…
Meet and Greet
9:30- 10:30….….
Susan Ohanian—Author Why Is Corporate America Bashing Our Schools? and co-author What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? (Room 91)
10:45-12:00……..
Steve Fleury and Eugenio Basualdo Toward Liberalizing Vocational Education; Joseph Cronin, The Knowledge Based Economy, Educational Debt, and Class Reproduction (Room 43)
Susan Newel- FAME: Finding Alternative to Military Enlistment; Nancy Patterson, Free Speech in the Balance (Room 54)
Scott Craig FLEX Education, (Room 91)
12:00-1:30……… Lunch
1:30-2:45……….
Elizabeth Jaegar, The Downer 5; Susan Harman, (Room 43)
Steve Strauss, Global Transformation of Public Education under Neoliberal Influence ; Tim Cashman, The United States and Its Wars; Mexican Teachers’ Perspective (Room 54)
Rich Gibson Why Have Schools ; Eric Ferris, Social Class: America’s Well Kept Dirty Little Secret (Room 91)
3:00-3:30…….…
George Schmidt, Editor of Substance (Room 91)
3:30-4:00……….
M.L. Liebler Poetry and Music (Room 91)
8:00-Bill Boyer and his infamous Ground Zen at the Zeitgeist. Discussion to follow.
Saturday (3-3-07)
9:00-9:30…….…
Meet and Greet
9:30-10:30……..
Patrick Shannon (Room 91)
10:45-12:00…….
Fran Shor Bush League Spectacles (Room 43)
Adam Renner The Achievement Gap in Mathematics; Carolyn Stirling, Burqas, Bombs and Bleeding Hearts: The Role(s) of Antiracist/Culturally Inclusive Education (Room 54)
Peter Werbe (Room 91)
12:00-1:30……… Lunch
1:30-2:45……….
Dave Hill, Class, Capital and Education in this Neoliberal NeoConservative Period ; Faith Wilson , Downsized Discourse: Classroom Management, Corporate Talk, and the Shaping of Correct Workplace Attitudes (Room 43)
Michael Peterson; Wayne Ross (Room 54)
Nancye McCrary; Richard Kamler Artist as Citizen in Contemporary Society (Room 91)
3:00-3:30…….…
Rich Gibson (Room 91)
3:30-4:00…….…
Alan Franklin, Music (Room 91)
8:00-Bill Boyer and his infamous Ground Zen at the Zeitgeist. Discussion to follow.
Sunday (3-4-07)
What to do? Organizing and proposals for action. (Room to be determined)
Schedule subject to change. See RougeForum.org for any changes.
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