Beating the odds, closing the gaps
STEM performance leader, investigative journalist headline General Sessions
Published: June 1, 2014
Registration opens June 10 for CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show, which runs from Sunday, Dec. 14 to Tuesday, Dec. 16, with pre-conference activities scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 13.
AEC Planning Committee Chair Bettye Lusk introduced her fellow committee members at CSBA’s delegate assembly last month, noting that all “have worked hard to ensure that the conference program reflects the varying needs, priorities and interests of CSBA’s membership.”
Meet this year’s General Session speakers
Freeman A. Hrabowski III, named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time magazine in 2012, will headline AEC’s first General Session on Sunday. Freeman Hrabowski has served as President of The University of Maryland, Baltimore County since 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. He was among the inaugural inductees into the U.S. News & World Report STEM Leadership Hall of Fame in 2012 and has authored numerous articles and co-authored two books, “Beating the Odds” and “Overcoming the Odds,” which focus on parenting and high-achieving African-American males and females in science.
Investigative journalist Amanda Ripley headlines AEC’s second General Session on Monday. She is the author of “The Smartest Kids in the World”—and “How They Got That Way” and “The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why.” In her books and award-winning stories for Time, The Atlantic and other magazines, Ripley explores the gap between public policy and human behavior. She has chronicled the stories of kids, parents and teachers, writing cover stories on the college of the future, the politics of education reform and the science of motivating children.