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Meeting The Challenge of Teaching All Students to Be Focus of Acer Colloquium At UB
Release Date: September 10, 1997 This content is archived.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Gloria Ladson-Billings, author of the book “The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children,” will speak at the 蜜桃传媒 on Thursday, Sept. 25, at the annual Charlotte C. Acer Colloquium on Urban Education.
Her public lecture, “Can I Ask You a Hard Question? Meeting the Challenge of Teaching All Students,” will take place at 4 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow on the North (Amherst) Campus. It will be followed by a reception.
The colloquium, sponsored by the UB Graduate School of Education, is funded by an endowment from alumnus Charlotte C. Acer.
Ladson-Billings began her research on successful teachers of African-American students as a National Academy of Education Spencer Post-doctoral Fellow. She has won awards from the American Educational Research Association and the National Association of Multicultural Education.
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