Hathaway Brown Hosts Education Innovation Summit This Week

Hathaway Brown is hosting its Education Innovation Summit Oct. 4 and Oct. 5.

The school's third annual summit, Everybody's Children: Independent Schools, Educational Reform, and the Future of Teaching, will feature lectures, workshops and presentations highlighting how independent schools fit into the national dialogue of how to improve public schools, and "how to improve education across the spectrum for the good of all America's children."

Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist of The New York Times and author of The World is Flat, will deliver the keynote presentation at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4.

The full schedule can be found here.

The summit overview explains the focus of two-day event:

Few problems in American society are as vexing and pressing as how to fix the American public education system. The problems are well known even if the solutions remain elusive: over-crowded classes, over-burdened teachers, under-resourced schools, and a history of conflicting agendas and priorities. Lost within this knot are the threads of independent schools, which, historically, have invested time, idealism and money into helping schools and students in the public sector. The question, now, is how independent schools can prioritize these efforts given the confusion in the school reform movement and the substantial tugs that most independent schools feel to prepare their own students for success in college and beyond.

As of Sept. 21, when there was one week left to register, 500 people from at least 75 schools in more than 20 states had signed up, according to a press release from Hathaway Brown. 

The summit, presented in partnership with the Edward E. Ford Foundation, is open to teachers and administrators from independent, public, private, parochial, and charter schools across the country and costs $400.