but there excellency the humor and everything. >> i find myself laughing but it is dead serious but i n don't feel they made light of the situation they were in but the low-fat of the kids and at the end you would wrap it up to say it is a challenge to fix that circumstance to allow children to come to school.

>> i just want to say i felt bad but the way that you wrote i hope the style will have more people read it.perien. the children did families are subjected to what you experience. atte the with that teacher y preparation could do talk about the support inch specifically of the contact of the union's if that helps people back?

>> first about teacher preparation we have to do so much better. all told led the there isme one hour devoted to class richmond and that is what everybody needs and the most ever some esoteric things but this is just not what we need they try to do first-year teacher mentoring each with a different philosophy. it was just baffling. >> and would love to have them come to observe but

it's i enjoyed the protection of the union. [applause]teachers because it had sought to the teachers because we ask the impossible of them there are times a that the contract was absurd like it wasno broken down into 32ndsm increments or to have longer hours with smaller glasseses was people per cohosh. >> pardon my voice. were there any moments like the one you described where however painful you thought this is worth it?

>> yes. there was one day. [laughter] and their right to one day i created a of a lesson in dizzy be different but elohim received justice but back in the day it nitride to write a lot of lessonal plans like that but the kids walked in there read this long article with the worksheet like self-incrimination and the trial by jury in jury of your peers i thought he

would not have me arrested. [laughter] so there other -- are other highlights.ik that was one great day. graduate school. theory into practice? that takes time. the students are coming in it it creates even a bigger conversation and then everything comes into play. can and we me have a media opportunity what i tried to hammer home is to create

effective teaching. but guess what?at the end of th the root of failure is poverty.newest schools we could put the best people the chenille laptops but there is harvesting but we will hit a wall until we address the underlying factors of poverty. versus 2e] the reason why finland is at the top of the charts there is a 22% child poverty rate. so let's be like finland. [laughter] >> actually that is sort of what i was going to ask youfa about.

i was intrigued about the three kids was there something the you could see that was a factor?intr >> key had the father who pushed him in and pushed him.ght, the she is here tonight. but a young woman who was in foster care with the rate of 2% and she persisted and that is extraordinary. i want te]

>> i worked with ed about one year he was one of the hardest working teachers i have ever met and his lessons were amazing. it was just a difficult job whether he stuck with it or in a different environment you can say what you want said he cared ride up to the very end.mr. boland. that they would tell me things. [laughter] i know he thinks he was a failure but idled the he was. [applause]

i was in the public-school system 30 years.k. and then i went back to full professor. [laughter] i agree with a lot of the things that you said. , where is it with said junior high i walked into the room and she walked into the room. [laughter]t i don't have? i said what she has what i do have? an [laughter]d but i stuck with it and i

greet if you would have stuck with it but had been betting on the inside notng only with the school system but the teacher training i haven't seen many changes since they started. so with the jobs in the achievement gap waiting for that poverty rate to go down if you have the power to make the changes what would you? >> within teacher trading teac almost all of my hours were watching videos of master

teachers.ou need to spend there were no living previous examples. would say goi 150 hours observing teachers. they would say go find them. why isn't anyone showing bee a master teacher? this step given the the theory? [laughter] o i do think the treaty would be more experiential. and many of the charterr schools are embracing the

longer school day the lugar school year and supplemental activities with saturday's school they are wonderful laboratories.nnovations. where we test these innovations. >> i taught 19 years the time that i was there much more emphasis on classroom discipline and that is where i think things went to hell. by principal said you cannot

do it this way anymoreand because if you are ejected twice you will fail the course.f up until that time i taught the class i was taught but the techniques were working then i was told you cannot do this anymore. the kids would say you can say that. that is illegal you can say that.i think we sho we should go back to the way things were forget to of the kids have been all these problems. [laughter] and talk about the black kid hispanic males now with the master race for the white students it is crazy just forget it and go back to the discipline of the old days. [applause]

>>. >> have about 300 people to thank. however there is an open bar and a lot of sliders' waiting on third street so let's keep the party going there.u, everybody for i will obviously sign the books here but the ku for all of the support along the way. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

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this. >> for element to be at the head of one of the most important countries of the world than the significant enemy at this time it is literally a executing girls for be little girl so that message comes from bill bully pulpit what america stands for. >> on the weekends edits authors sharing their new releases. >> they can have a long your conversation.

>> debris you offer after author. >> i love booktv. [inaudible conversations]al assn >> readiness is peter in did 2009 of a young band picked up a hefty book for his beach reading from but 18th-century of gingrich. the story took possession

and what emerged the alley theater hamilton is now the hottest ticket on broadway. broadway plays know the exact fidelity.ach books are each not be late to read the in the other can kick up a lot of sand and those who also had a book about the obstacles overcome by immigrants considerably shorter than said jeremy the talks about the honduran boy who makes his way through mexico and across the texas border into laredo.

the deliverable is written at appropriate for fifth graders. welcome to the launch of the national association of scholars. signed by colleges and universities through 2014 and 2015 a little later you will hear from the director who first conceived of the recent program was what college's value. to establish the subject

that professors and the general public take seriously. to join the national association of scholars to synthesize that massive collection into a coherent analysis. and we will have time later but our quito speaker the professor from emory university at the national endowment for the arts but the ad how grateful i am

against that threatens to drown the public culture.for the clearly it is much a matter of urgent concern as the national association of scholars.er than [applause] fakes. it is the happy news of the read the choices by the colleges. so i will tell theac background white colleges even have these programs.

for those problems they are facing in these programs which can run all year long with the organized programs into those courses and not just for the books for them to read.nt to for the extended experience. a but why? there are other courses to a grm take also prolong the have committed to this institution the last thing you want to do is read a

book so briefly there are three major problems with their incoming students. maybe now estimates those hyper institutions but one is this is something that doesn't exist otherwise. there is no common greeting in america in my for in general or in the school curriculum. i asked students in a classified refer to a book like "huckleberry finn"?

maybe two or three at a 20. thrh said great gatsby?have read "t the most popular ones are "to kill a mockingbird" still the most popular novel this still only 20% that was reported a few years ago.this i this is a unique condition the bible is the book that everybody knew it was everywhere it was in school reading books, all had 90

students read it this that was important at the time of the founding and the servant on the amount time to put away childish things. that is the the sermon on the mount. [laughter] that is later nearly

one-third read for pleasure.ss o up to one hour is 24% two hours is 22%.r 22 percent t so three-quarters of the

students negligible activity at best they just don't read many books on their own battle. assigning the komen reading where you have to read books college will ramp up their reading requirements on their own. you will thus ceded teacher every day he will go to the pages with you he will be all your on the teacher doesn't care. there is no babysitting there is no parachute. so if you disappear you have to accustom yourself to the 300 page book can spend time with that over time many

teachers say it is harder and harder to assign a book. you can now read a few pages and then go back.then go back i that doesn't work at the college level so that is the intent but some will say they don't have time to read the all they have so many hours of homework but this is where the survey comes at how many hours they are assigned but how much they do and these are for your college students between

three and five hours a week of between six and ted? all weekend long. to a few get below that so would is a hallmark that takes that away but we have to get them there. t colleges are graded on retention and. they have accreditation and issues that can come into play.

so we have one more factor antidote read on your own. you don't know very but. that knowledge level is the visible. isn't just their reading skills / to the scores were the lowest of 40 years the college readiness only 46 percent and the vast majority are going to college and they're determined to the college ready with the right key

test had the lowest scores ever actually have gone down every single year except for the stay flat so this is what is happening with get the national assessment of progress which is the nation's report card and content areas favored deemed only 12 percent were proficient. civics was only 24 percent. if i a middle-class and i refer to the french revolution and or thomas jefferson, i have to explain

what that is. you cannot just assume you can have a historic civic conversation you select a book that has a lot of a company knowledge. as wel charles dick said -- to charles dickens and a tailored to cities. you what to select a book that is knowledge rich to bring cultural literacy to fill up those big gaps so that is what the program will do.

[laughter] >> thinks are coming now on the night they are predicting snow. and also thanks for hosting us. with the book that was assigned a comic reading. with that advertising for a college freshman.ther this list to come up with subject categories and looking at

the trends to give our own analysis. and started i'll list of recommended titles that colleges could pick from. as the readings were on the rise. in looking for the one stop of what the trends were. if we created something it is now there go to source. faculty members come to us now. it is included every common

reading. every have the new edition taking on a life of its own. for those to coordinate those reading programs and for those who want to love reading. and their concern of community. there is no lack of intellectual community and these patterns several already step -- set up and accepted with the way they run. large co to select the book by popular vote and to assess

if anyone has read the book and they always try to bring the author of what other colleges are doing. to have those coordinators to think outside the box these are the under represented items from what is being assigned. and m thinking about that and a generous way. but the specific things that mark was talking about and

what would stand the test of time. and if they could not so i have collected these objections have 25 so far i thought of a couple while i was sitting here. it is possible to choose and what you want to do with these programs.

if students don't like the books and they want to readsn it. so the job is to find out what they want to read thatt we will assign that. so compensable but in june of long run that does not help them. instead of staying home to have your mind informed. >> another push back is that the classics are ldds day of privilege. in to that i say it is a privilege.

to we should give that privilege to as many as peaky and.into talk but to have more access if we want to give back says it to have guessed essays by two to individuals to agree coming from different reasons than different angles.ifferent tables with the creator of the books curriculum across the country and community colleges. did anyone can benefits and in georgia. and a professor of english at skidmore immersing herself in her essay in to

see value in let the book school and letting them improve themselves over time she also thinks colleges are trying to accomplish too much with one book and those common reading programs should be evaluated. andrew now pass the baton and then to see him notice sayings.

>> and reba like to add it to even make this possible. and to make this much better work. >> so i have been talking about beach books with everybody with that topic of conversation in just today i had a conversation with someone who had a common read being in 1967. with a history of intellect

and with that, and reading in 67. in four of the fairly common readings nowadays and with that account of the troubles of trash. if you have a graphic memoir of john lewis an admirable man but it is that a fourth grade level.urrent

and we have and i love reading that.would not th and then that was to make you paranoid. but there really is of the book you would expect for college. the we have problems to have something of that common reading program. that emphasizes it leads

toward the problems of the books that they choose setter very vivid all that's with what we can hope for. and hope for something better despite of the problems. you know, what a common reading is. your note it is everywhere. 35 with the zero leave colleges. half of the top 100 universities a lot of colleges. because it is important to talk about that means i care

enough about this book to read it or talk about it with my friends. and i will take my college education is seriously. ended is unfortunate to be done at a low level. ended is worth talking even when they say it was mandatory they really don't

have a way of much of enforcement. to make simple easy reading books. so that is number one. number two it has to appeal to as many students as possible. poss and also appeal to as many professors as possible and to that is why you have this huge committee university of cincinnati is my favorite about whether hundred 50 books since it had become

the 21 people this is meant partly up thinking what the students would like with a business administration and a professor and the english professor those other parts of the students say you have a book about the love life of marie curie. syllabi yen by ever betty they're not asked to get a good book but one broadly on appeal.

if it is a your first priority the institutional structure isn't set up that way. seaver trying to get the recent books as well. they think students will care more there was somebody will always go for a recent book the matter how hard you try. you'll get people who are not american part of a point of going to college from

those on the circuit of common greeting. youn it is all the more and biography to serve as popular nonfiction and a lack of style with no variation it is all the same sort of thing somebody who founded a nonprofit organization to overcome adversity. there are different scenarios.

it isn't just the same homogenous but the most popular book and then publishing the last year when you choose more recent books older the book there is a real narrowing.owing by but had to all of this is all skewed in the of progression of books. commission statements talk

about diversity in cleanliness is civic the engagement. but there is that archipelago of jargon and those of the chusing thero books they tend to be progressive because you're trying to get consensus with a lot of books and the environment with though i'm sayingmon denominator. been saying all this the

point is restricts universeprogi of those progressive limitations of very narrow n range. but the fact of the entirety it is a problem. so what can we hope for? to have a classic selection.

you have the college of concordia about china. is a classic work in jonathan edwards editing of the diary. and those that were honorable mentions in and they are working right now but the point is that they do seem to be working. it to get those extra curricular goals have was

that being built? literally is it is theyssible to tell. that you can't tell what you we're doing ruth like them to have smaller committees it to have a great experience we would like them to integrate the readings you can test. >> can we believe in the recommendation to make the college admission process will work selective if you really can get your student body able to read one challenge but aside from

that and confidence of the college's to those practice standards making marvelous improvements it can work for the other colleges. and then the best practices to spend up practical improvement in the guess they do want to leave you with that that there is hopealr. for what already exists.

thank you. [applause] abo >> so i will be making nonsense noises i thought maybe of those two top books of those chosen by the largest number of colleges of the most common reading programs 5916 separate colleges but it was the other west more.no

[laughter] amanda was of white house fellow he read some place in the newspaper someone who grew up in the same city of baltimore in the drug dealer and the crack dealer and then to go on to be a good life and then going from oneif direction there was a lot of kitchen pulling of the we didn't know that circumstance but the other

west more had a lot of bad breaks but it does get a signed as much as it does that they should have empathy in realize the other one made some bad choices so part of the of black lives matter movement but this isn't entirely his of crack dealer who participated in that is what happens. some of the time but this poor fellow was living in rural alabama to the two

killers were also black to cut up the story to make him a the fall guy. jail and is on with death row and then to exonerate him. and then to be sprung from jail and to have even a nice life after jail. and a page to order of how and justices can happen and i will just leave it there. to them provides no realic

justice it is like the other west more. so with these ratings i have referred to before. ended fittest chosen for common reading, there is some hard data at to back that up. so now we are ready to go and ask questions.

mark your comments the suggestion were pretty unhappy with the choice is a your colleagues are making i could say you are in favor of censorship? >> we need as a common body of work so this is what i think brings coherence to the culture and allows us to work themselves out over time and we shouldn't trust our judgments about contemporary works becauseov very often we're wrong he read something you thought was fantastic 20 years later it is stated in the short period of time and there is a limited amount of time and a day in a school day you have to make choices than

the cost is very highce college is a very short period in people's lives as is their only chance to read many of the great works of civilization they will not read them most likely when they're out of college don't have a professor to guide them through our students' reading the same thing it is an extraordinary opportunityis a if they ask 10 years after college they don't say i wish i went to more parties i wish i took more coursesd' in in part history oror shakespeare.ntellectual gr how was the elite -- an elite intellectual time. into provide the resources

they need other faculties. [applause] you level so heavily were dead criticism i am wondering if you had to choose the one common reading what would your pick be? one common >> only for the college that i am on the committee.

second chances. >> what about those things that are near verses are? period that is very abstract [laughter] what comes to mind colleges use the word relevant but they need a book by an author. from there seem background that might have merit but it will get this out of what we already know. thank getting outside of the

current era is a valuable thing that we seek are thee right way for all time the limited to the current age. >> how far do you want to go? >>. >> up point about relevance area there are things irrelevant to young people's lines -- lives to talk about adolescence is a peer pressure i don't know what it is.on for the elite had -- eliot

and he is live himself he is on the al side of the wallsse of troy. and says i made a mistake and he's standing inside the walls and they say get inside he is sitting there

but just with this one book it is possible if it is our task to show the of colleges why they are important.

>> i have a question i am iau sure if it is english faculty but it could be that faculty their reports? >> probably not the englishle department or the faculty on campus the read the most. [laughter] interesting i don't know. what teeone the book to do?

>> i take the right to insist is whatever they say. [laughter] i have had some interesting conversations with friendsdiscii who are disciplined in some show there is more interest on the candid than others.the and as an easier english professor but he would give nontrivial since and but there are a fair number that

our pretty good and theno criteria would not be perfect and the french or the i italian department would not be bad but. >> one thing that strikes me with politics is the process food or maybe that processed intellect to have that data formation so the question is how do you get that intellect of the whole food

type of intellect of the nonme scholar of the glorious? >> got it. >> and actually i think they know about that approach with this new form of us amazon kendall style live reading. >> there is a new program that you can use but know

what page they're all in all your help fast they are reading or they're trying to gain the system because they cannot possibly read that fast did you can know what days of the week and whether they actually finished the book. >> data mining is getting worse not better. what do we do? >> i do think it is up to develop -- faculty and up to the college's to aspire to that to not be content with formulas or those ready-made answers.

and its our job to encourage you to you do that. >> but then to have those public schools in the country. [laughter] doing our in then to suggest. >> is there any merit to the idea from the time they reach college if they didn't have a good foundation?certai

>> but those are in the same socio-economic state spin and for of the kids the if the vocabulary behind fate media but mostly because of the media in those digital devices. young people consume and absorb above and it just

buries them. and to have the full uniform in place before they enter college.in the instance have so many things in their lives not just they don't care package and a kid get over them with career iran to money.

>> if you have been informed citizen in a discerning -- a discerning customer you'd far. to observe -- to absorb and that argument doesn't go very far. . .