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Dr. Roberta Ahlquist<\/font><\/h4>\n

September 16, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n

\"\"\u00a0 Dr. Roberta Ahlquist, Professor in Multicultural Foundations of Education at San Jose State University will discuss and show pictures of the many public and private schools, colleges, and universities in the United Arab Emirates, Lehore, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Jordan, and the West Bank that she visited, looking specifically at curriculum in government (public) schools.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a big-picture overview, going deeper on issues participants have a specific interest in with slides.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Ahlquist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr.\u00a0Ahlquist is co-editor of the 2011 book, Assault on Kids: How Hyper-Accountability (testing), Corporation Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne are Destroying Our Schools. If anyone needs to learn more about how the corporate neo-cons are taking over and privatizing public schools, this is the book to read.\u00a0 Copies will be available for $25.<\/p>\n

This forum is co-sponsored by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.\u00a0 A repeat of this presentation will be held Tuesday evening, Oct 2, at 7:00\u00a0 in the Assembly Room of the Bechtel Center on Stanford campus.\u00a0 It is open to anyone interested in this topic.<\/p>\n

During her presentation Dr. Ahlquist mentioned other groups of interest.\u00a0 These included the group in San Mateo county<\/a> working to stop additional prison construction.<\/p>\n

 
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