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DESCRIPTION:Deborah W. Meier is currently at New York University’s Steinhardt School 
 of Education, as senior scholar a as well as Board member and director of 
 New Ventures at Mission Hill, director and advisor to Forum for Democracy 
 and Education, and on the Board of The Coalition of Essential 
 Schools.\n\nMeier has spent more than four decades working in public 
 education as a teacher, writer and public advocate. She began her teaching 
 career as a kindergarten and headstart teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and 
 New York City schools. She was the founder and teacher-director of a 
 network of highly successful public elementary schools in East Harlem. In 
 1985 she founded Central Park East Secondary School, a New York City public 
 high school in which more than 90% of the entering students went on to 
 college, mostly to 4-year schools. During this period she founded a local 
 Coalition center, which networked approximately fifty small Coalition-style 
 K-12 schools in the city.  \n\nBetween 1992-96 she also served as 
 co-director of a project (Coalition Campus Project) that successfully 
 redesigned two large failing city high schools, and created a dozen new 
 small Coalition schools.  She was an advisor to New York City’s Annenberg 
 Challenge and Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University 
 from 1995-1997.\n\nFrom 1997 to 2005 she was the founder and principal of 
 the Mission Hill School a K-8 Boston Public Pilot school serving 180 
 children in the Roxbury community.\n\nThe schools she has helped create 
 serve predominantly low-income African-American and Latino students, and 
 include a typical range of students in terms of academic skills, special 
 needs, etc. There are no entrance requirements. These schools are 
 considered exemplars of reform nationally and affiliates of the national 
 Coalition of Essential Schools founded by Dr. Ted Sizer.\n\nA learning 
 theorist, she encourages new approaches that enhance democracy and equity 
 in public education. Meier is on the editorial board of Dissent magazine, 
 The Nation and the Harvard Education Letter. She is a Board member of the 
 Association of Union Democracy, Educators for Social Responsibility, the 
 Panasonic Foundation, and a founding member of the National Board of 
 Professional Teaching Standards, the North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation 
 and the Forum for Democracy and Education, among others.\n\nMeier was born 
 April 6, 1931 in New York City; she attended Antioch College (1949-51) and 
 received an MA in History from the University of Chicago (1955). She has 
 received honorary degrees from Bank Street College of Education, Brown, 
 Bard, Clark, Teachers College of Columbia University, Dartmouth, Harvard, 
 Hebrew Union College, Hofstra, The New School, Lesley College, SUNY Albany, 
 UMASS Lowell, and Yale. She was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur 
 Fellowship in 1987.\n\nHer books, The Power of Their Ideas, Lessons to 
 America from a Small School in Harlem (1995), Will Standards Save Public 
 Education (2000), In Schools We Trust (2002), Keeping School, with Ted and 
 Nancy Sizer  (2004) and Many Children Left Behind (2004) are all published 
 by Beacon Press, as well as her leatest, Playing for Keeps, with Breda 
 Engel and Beth Taylor publiched by Teachers College Press. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/05/18663180.php
SUMMARY:Deborah Meier- Education Reformer, Acitivst and Author
LOCATION:Cabrillo College Watsonville Campus\nDance Room\n318 Union Street, 
 Watsonville, CA\n\n
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