NewTalkers Hara Marano and Richard Arum have been featured in this week's The New Yorker! In The Child Trap, Joan Acocella reviews Hara's latest book, A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting (Broadway, 2008)and also features Richard Arum's 2003 book Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2003). The issues raised in Acocella's piece touch on aspects of a few of our conversations: School Discipline, National Service, Obesity...
Philip Howard will be speaking Thursday November 20, 2008 a the Committee for Economic Development's Annual Fall Board Meeting about his upcoming book, Life Without Lawyers (W.W. Norton & Co, 2009). As attentive NewTalk watchers know, frequent NewTalker Charlie Kolb is the President of CED.
Philip Howard is also delivering the keynote address of the Education Law Association’s 54th Annual Conference on Saturday, Nov 22. The ELA’s Annual Conference provides a forum to discuss current education law issues with experts from around the world. The conference format stimulates dialogue among attorneys, professors, and practitioners and also provides for specific role groups to meet and share ideas and resources.
Philip Howard will be speaking Thursday November 20, 2008 a the Committee for Economic Development's Annual Fall Board Meeting about his upcoming book, Life Without Lawyers (W.W. Norton & Co, 2009). As attentive NewTalk watchers know, frequent NewTalker Charlie Kolb is the President of CED.
Philip Howard is also delivering the keynote address of the Education Law Association’s 54th Annual Conference on Saturday, Nov 22. The ELA’s Annual Conference provides a forum to discuss current education law issues with experts from around the world. The conference format stimulates dialogue among attorneys, professors, and practitioners and also provides for specific role groups to meet and share ideas and resources.
