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		THE MIT EDUCATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM  [ESP]


			  Spring Seminar Series


	        "ISSUES in K-12 EDUCATION PROJECTS at MIT"

	  Updates and reviews by members of The MIT Community
     involved in a wide range of K-12 research & education projects
         	formally and informally linked to MIT and
		   related programs on and off Campus.

       (all sessions are on Thursday evenings at 7pm in W20-400)


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	                     ALAN DYSON

    "A Review of The MIT-Cambridge Partnership for Public Education"

		Thursday, 23 April at 7pm in W20-400

Mr. Dyson is the Executive Director of this MIT program based in the
office of the president.  Alan works as a broker to bring together
teachers, administrators and students from The Cambridge Public Schools
with individuals who represent community service organisations,
businesses and universities to design projects and programs that push
the boundaries of "schooling" ... of additional interest to those teachers
and students looking for the means to support programs in their own
schools where educational defunding is taking it's heaviest toll.

Alan will also review two recent projects wherein high school students 
started their own businesses assisted by the advisory work of his program.

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			Speaker & Topic TBA
		Thursday, 30 April at 7pm in W20-400
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			 RON LATANISION

    "An update on the work of The MIT K-12 Education Committee"

		Thursday, 7 May at 7pm in W20-400

Professor Latanision chairs a committee at MIT that regularly brings together
over fifty (50) projects on campus that are involved in as many aspects
of issues and programs in K-12 education, that members of the MIT community
are studying, have themselves initiated or are working toward starting-up.
Ron Latanision is a Professor in MIT's Department of Materials Science
and Engineering.  This talk is Prof. Latanision's annual review of his work
in the K-12 domain especially for the Educational Studies Program series.


For additional information on this seminar series and the High School
Studies Program [HSSP] for high school kids at MIT please call the ESP
office at 253-4882, or drop by the main office in W20-467, or call
Richard Shyduroff, ESP Spring Seminar Co-Ordinator at 253-2000 (press 1)
and leave a message ... or send e-mail to <rdshydur@athena.mit.edu> ....  

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    previous presenters at this spring'92 seminar series have been

	        GREGORY GARGARIAN, PhD Candidate
	 Epistemology & Learning Group, Media Lab, MIT
		  "Making Schools Unproductive"
			    16 April

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