{"id":60627,"date":"2012-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/advisory-national-expert-to-address-crisis-in-urban-education-dec-7\/"},"modified":"2012-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"advisory-national-expert-to-address-crisis-in-urban-education-dec-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/advisory-national-expert-to-address-crisis-in-urban-education-dec-7\/","title":{"rendered":"ADVISORY: National expert to address \u2018Crisis in Urban Education\u2019, Dec. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<b>WHO<\/b>: Christopher Emdin, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University. The former teacher and national expert on improving urban education will speak to education faculty from URI, RIC, CCRI and teachers statewide at the &#8220;College Readiness Symposium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nEmdin, who serves as director of Secondary School Initiatives at Columbia\u2019s Urban Science Education Center, is also an expert on the intersection of hip-hop and education, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, politics, race, class, diversity, and youth empowerment.<\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT<\/b>: Emdin will keynote the College Readiness Symposium and will speak about \u201cThe Crisis in Urban Education.\u201d The Rhode Island Office of Higher Education and URI sponsor the symposium.<\/p>\n<p><b>WHEN<\/b>: Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, Professor Emdin will speak at 12:15 p.m.; the program runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><b>WHERE<\/b>:  URI\u2019s Memorial Union, 50 Lower College Road, Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMore information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/releases\/index.php?id=6475\">http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/releases\/index.php?id=6475<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>COVERAGE ARRANGEMENTS<\/b>: Contact Dave Lavallee, URI Communications and Marketing, 401-874-5862.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: Christopher Emdin, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University. The former teacher and national expert on improving urban education will speak to education faculty from URI, RIC, CCRI and teachers statewide at the &#8220;College Readiness Symposium.&#8221; &#13; Emdin, who serves as director of Secondary School Initiatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}