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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 research & education
	       in K-12 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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	           	   Gregory Gargarian
		   
		    "Making Schools Unproductive"

		Thursday, 16 April at 7pm in W20-400

This talk offers a mixture of philosophy and practice, and will be a
Gedanken Experiment comparing productive models with educational models.
Currently "school" is based on mass production.  Most prospects for 
reform rely on lean production models.  Examples of alternatives to such
production models will be discussed.

Gregory Gargarian is a researcher, composer and educator who is currently
a PhD candidate in Seymour Papert's Epistemology & Learning Group, a 
research and education laboratory in MIT's Media Lab.

Mr. Gargarian is also a teacher at The Paige Academy in Roxbury and an
occasional consultant to an alternative school system in Brasil.

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	                     Alan Dyson

      "A Review of The 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.  He has designed a number of successful pilot
programs for high school kids interested in launching small businesses.
Additional information about his presentation will be posted in weekly
updates announcing this seminar series.


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			Speaker & Topic TBA

		Thursday, 30 April at 7pm in W20-400
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		     Professor Ron Latanision

  "An update on the work of The MIT K-12 Education Initiative 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> ....