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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES Education School Dean Murphy To Participate in CNN Online Chat
What does the future hold for education? Graduate School of Education Dean Jerome T. Murphy will discuss this issue with participants in a live online chat hosted by CNN.com on Tuesday, Nov. 30, from 4 to 5 p.m. Participants can log on to the chat at http://www.cnn.com/chat. In addition to the chat, Murphy is one of 14 experts featured in CNN.com’s Millennium Series. The series showcases interviews with the experts, including composer Philip Glass and fashion designer Betsey Johnson, and explores major issues that the nation will face in the next century. In his Millennium Series interview Murphy discussed 21st-century teaching techniques, early learning, the future of public schools, and how to make teaching a more rewarding career. Although technology will play its part, Murphy emphasizes the centrality of the people who will create the dialogue that constitutes learning at its best. What we think of as a public school is being radically redefined, according to Murphy. Public schools may soon include schools run by nonprofits and even for-profit organizations. "What will determine whether we call them public schools is not so much the vehicle that’s providing the education, but really whether they ascribe to a certain set of public values," Murphy said. "Values like equal educational opportunity. Values like nondiscrimination and so on. We’ll have multiple delivery systems to achieve public values." Murphy’s Millennium Series interview can be read or downloaded as an audio file by logging on to http://www.cnn.com/future.
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