PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME: 21ST
Century Leadership Challenges
to
be Unveiled In Kansas City
JOIN US! UPLOAD YOUR PROPOSALS BY MARCH
30, 2012
Over 300 professors and educators
will convene at NCPEA’s annual summer conference in Kansas City, Missouri,
August 7-10, 2012. Kansas City is a cosmopolitan, vibrant, creative,
down-to-earth place. Did you know that the Kauffman
Center for the Performing Arts is now open?—this new
center in the downtown area is already heralded for its music, opera, theater,
and dance. In this inspiring setting we will gather to work and play, and to
discuss 21st century leadership challenges that span such important
topics as social justice and competition.
We are excited to spend time with you in
deeply important dialogue about such crucial issues as the neoliberal assault
on public education and what Diane Ravitch has called the “Billionaire Boys
Club” comprised of Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and John Walton who are pursuing an
agenda that de-professionalizes educational leadership, privatizes the public
trust, and imposes an anti-democratic corporate agenda for America’s public
schools using test scores as leverage to point to the alleged “failure” of
current structures and leaders to deliver quality education.
The Kansas City conference promises
to lift the veil on the neoliberal platform and to expose such political
dynamics that hold us back. We will seek new ways forward as an academic group
of practical pedagogues and activists that wants to see beyond the veil to what
is possible and good as a future-minded social justice community.
If you are interested in learning
more, my article in NCPEA’s Education
Leadership Review of October 2010 is available at the NCPEA’s Connexions
website as well. Check it out and join us in Kansas City to continue the
conversation and share what’s on your mind. See you there!
Fenwick
W. English, NCPEA President
R.
Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership
School
of Education
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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