{"id":279,"date":"2010-11-08T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T18:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-11-18T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:35:23","slug":"speaking-at-the-claremont-colleges-library-on-thursday-nov-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Speaking at the Claremont Colleges Library on Thursday, Nov. 11."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update: a video of the talk will be available soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will be talking about our Los Angeles research at the Claremont Colleges Honnold Library on Thursday at 4:15 pm. \u00a0The talk is part of the library&#8217;s series of speakers from all the college campuses. \u00a0It is billed as:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lessons from L.A Schools.: Some Gleanings from the Toils of the Past that Would Make the Work of The Future Easier if Only Someone Would Listen<br \/>\nCharles Taylor Kerchner, Research Professor, CGU School of Educational Studies<br \/>\nThursday, November 11th, 2010, 4:15 PM<br \/>\nFounder\u2019s Room, Honnold\/Mudd Library<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/libs1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-281\" title=\"libs1\" src=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/libs1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe story of public education in Los Angeles is one of institutional decline and hollowing out mixed with daily heroism and self-sacrifice on the part of teachers and administrators who try to make an old institution do things it was not designed to do. \u00a0Based on his books, <em>Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education, <\/em>and <em>The Transformation of Great American School Districts <\/em>(both published by Harvard Education Press in 2008), Professor Charles Kerchner will chronicle how a school district that was called \u201cthe best in the West,\u201d came to be publically regarded as \u201cfailing,\u201d even though by many criteria, it isn\u2019t. \u00a0His lecture will also detail how the politics of Los Angeles just might work to transform public education here and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: a video of the talk will be available soon. I will be talking about our Los Angeles research at the Claremont Colleges Honnold Library on Thursday at 4:15 pm. \u00a0The talk is part of the library&#8217;s series of speakers from all the college campuses. \u00a0It is billed as: Lessons from L.A Schools.: Some Gleanings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}