The conference will convene with the first panel beginning on Monday, March 17, 2008 at 8:30 a.m. The conference concludes at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, March 21, 2008. View a complete FINAL program, accessible as a PDF, on the Homepage.
All Week: Monday, March 17 – Friday, March 21
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
All Week: Monday, March 17 – Friday, March 21
Registration: Everett Lounge on the First Floor of Zankel Building, 4:30 – 7:30PM (SUNDAY); 7:30AM – 4:00PM (M-Th); 7:30AM – 11:00AM (F)
All CIES Conference registrants should first enter Teachers College through Zankel Building (also known as Main Hall) at 525 West 120th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. Everyone who enters TC must show a picture ID to the TC security guards. Registration will be in the Everett Lounge on the 1st floor of Zankel Building. Each conference registrant will receive several items, including a CIES conference badge. This badge can then be shown to TC security guards by conference attendees in lieu of a photo ID at TC’s entrances throughout the week of the conference. It is very important that conference attendees keep their badges visible while on TC’s campus. Badges will be required for entry into CIES events, including receptions. Look for the "I ? NY" table near Registration. There student volunteers will be able to answer all of your NYC-related questions.
Exhibitors: First and Second floors of Zankel Building
The CIES conference will have a dynamic range of exhibitors throughout the week of the conference. The exhibitors will have tables on the First and Second floors of Zankel Building. As of December, some of the registered exhibitors include: Save the Children, Teachers College Press, The Scholar’s Choice, AED, ETS, World Learning, Elsevier, AIR, EQUIP, and Routledge. The 2008 CIES Program Committee would like to extend its deepest appreciation to David Post and Sarah Fuller at Penn State University, who have done an excellent job at organizing this year’s exhibit feature of the program.
Coffee Breaks: Daily at 10:00AM and 3:00PM, Second Floor of Zankel Building
A small hospitality coffee station will be available for conference attendees in between the two morning and two afternoon sessions. Coffee will also be available for purchase at the TC Library Café, on the 1st floor of Russell Hall in TC’s Gottesman Libraries. The Café serves Starbucks coffee, offers a wide variety of snacks and reading materials, and is a great meeting place. A second kiosk will also be set up on the first floor of Zankel Building every day from 10AM - 2PM at which conference participants can buy box lunches, snacks, sandwiches and continental breakfast items. A variety of establishments are also available 1-2 blocks from TC; a full list of these cafes, restaurants and stores will be available online by early March.
School Visits
TC students are planning several visits to NYC schools for CIES participants. Details of each school and the visit, as well as information on how to register for a visit, are available for download below. Please sign up by Friday, March 14 at 12PM EST. Many thanks to Jessica Lopez and her committee for planning this part of the conference program.
Tuesday, March 18: Roosevelt Children's Center and the Gramercy School
* Another visit to Roosevelt and Gramercy has been added for Monday, March 17th 9:30AM – 11:30AM. Please email Linda. Participants for that tour should meet Linda at 8:30am at the same place specified in the weblink for the Tuesday tour.
Tuesday, March 18: PS87
Wednesday, March 19: Brooklyn Tech High School
Wednesday, March 19: United Nations International School - THE UN SCHOOL VISIT IS FILLED.
Thursday, March 20: The James Baldwin School
Thursday, March 20: Humanities Preparatory Academy
Sunday, March 16, 2008
CIE/IED Teachers College Alumni Day – Celebrating our Past, Looking to a Future: All day
Please visit the webpage CIE/IED Alumni Day for a tentative program of events. To commemorate the 52nd Annual Meetings of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), the Comparative and International Education Programs of the Department of International and Transcultural Studies (ITS) at Teachers College will hold a special pre-conference Alumni Day to recognize and reflect upon the accomplishments of graduates from the Comparative and International Education (CIE) and International Educational Development (IED) programs at TC. TC is pleased that the history of comparative education in the U.S. is closely associated with John Dewey and subsequent faculty. Over the past twenty years, TC has graduated over 900 students from the CIE and IED programs. TC graduates have gone on to accomplished careers in education and research, government and policy, international organizations, and community and development work. Please join current faculty, staff, and students in this one-day event to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of our alumni and to reflect upon the current and future state of research and work in comparative and international education. The CIE/IED Alumni Day is being organized under the direction of the Vice President of CIES, Dr. Gita Steiner-Khamsi. Information regarding the event will be forthcoming shortly. In the meantime, please write to aks7@columbia.edu if you have any questions or wish to participate in this event. Tickets can be purchased online through the CIES 2008 conference registration website at: http://tinyurl.com/2abp72.
WCCES Board Meeting: 1:00PM, 305 Russell Hall in TC Library (closed meeting)
Registration: 4:30PM – 7:30PM, Everett Lounge on the First Floor of Zankel Building
Please come to Teachers College on Sunday for early registration.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Special Interest Groups (SIGs): All day
Panels and business lunch meetings of the official CIES SIGs will take place on Monday, March 17th. See the program for room assignments. Many thanks to the SIG Co-Chairs for their leadership.
CIES Executive Board Meeting: 10:00AM – 11:00AM, 305 Russell Hall in the TC Library
CIES Board Meeting: 11:00AM – 1:30PM, 305 Russell Hall in the TC Library (Closed meeting)
Afternoon Music: 4:00PM – 5:00PM, TC Library Cafe
Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy some afternoon music by TC musicians, the Joe Freuen Quintet. Thank you to the TC Gottesman Library Staff for organizing this event.
Welcome Addresses and CIES Awards Ceremony: 5:30PM – 6:45PM, Cowin Center
Opening Reception: 6:45PM – 8:00PM, Dining Hall
Please gather in the Cowin Center, located on the first floor of Horace Mann Building at Teachers College, for the official welcome to the CIES 2008 conference by CIES President Steven Klees, CIES President-Elect Henry M. Levin, TC President Susan Fuhrman, TC Provost Thomas James, and a Cathy Wendler from the CIES Co-Sponsor, ETS. Entrance to the Cowin Center is available on Broadway between 120th and 121st Streets. After the official kick-off, all are invited to this year’s Opening Reception hosted by Educational Testing Services (ETS) in the TC Dining Hall. Many thanks to ETS for their generous co-sponsorship of this year’s CIES conference.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Gender Symposium: All day, 179 Grace Dodge Hall
Download the Program! (PDF) The 2008 Gender Symposium will take place all day in room 179 Grace Dodge Hall at Teachers College. The Symposium will include four back-to-back panels. The Symposium will bring together prominent speakers in four panels on current topics and trends in the field of gender and education in order to stimulate dialogue around and among the fields represented: gender and education frameworks, girls education funding debates, and gender in relation to peace education and to globalization. The symposium will close with comments by Nelly P. Stromquist on the state of the field and directions into the future. Many thanks to Karen Monkman, Nancy Kendall and their committee for their work in organizing this year’s symposium.
CIES Board Meeting: 11:00AM – 1:30PM, 305 Russell Hall in the TC Library (Closed Meeting)
Family Life and Academic Stress Panel: 12:10PM – 1:30PM, 179 Grace Dodge Hall
Under the leadership of Linda Furuto, the New Scholars Workshop Committee is hosting a panel discussion on Family Life and Academic Stress. Presenters include Vandra Masemann, Sandra Stacki, Christine Min Wotipka, and Vilma Seeberg. Back by popular demand, the Academic Life and Family Stress panel is geared toward new, emerging scholars in the field. This unique presentation provides a comparative approach to resolving issues of family and academic intersections. It includes a brief exploration by Vandra Masemann on the family lives of great scholars such as Margaret Mead, Bertrand Russell, and Charles Darwin, who wrote the Origin of Species while his wife and he were raising eight children. It also includes information on the arrangements made by various universities to be more family-friendly in their leave and benefits policies and a report of how to bend the rules when administrators are unwilling to grant family leave request. The discussion will also include reference issues of every phase of the life cycle and alternative lifestyles and family arrangements. Specific ideas include how to get published with dependents including children, elders or others to care for, traveling to research while having young children or other dependents, when Daddy is the academic and anxieties of tenure and promotion. Time will be allocated for group discussion among participants.
Afternoon Music: 4:00PM – 5:00PM, TC Library Cafe
Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy some afternoon music by TC musicians, the Anthony Maceli Trio. Thank you to the TC Gottesman Library Staff for organizing this event.
Claude Eggertsen Lecture: 5:30PM – 6:30PM, Cowin Center
We are excited to announce that the keynote speaker for this year's Eggertsen Lecture is Vicky Colbert, founder and Executive Director of the Escuela Nueva Foundation (ENF), and founder of its U.S-based sister organization, Escuela Nueva International (ENI). The title of Ms. Colbert's lecture is Escuela Nueva: Quality and Equity for Education for All. Escuela Nueva was established by Colbert in 1976 in Colombia and implemented in most rural schools in that country by the end of the 1980s. It is one of the longest running 'bottom-up' educational innovations of the developing world. ENF's mission is to contribute to improving the quality, efficiency and sustainability of rural and urban basic education primarily in developing countries through dissemination of its model and private-public partnerships. More than 20,000 rural public schools in Colombia, as well as 14 countries in Latin America and approximately 5 million children have benefited from Escuela Nueva. After returning to Colombia upon completing her graduate work at Stanford, Colbert decided to devote her career to public service and education. More information on ENF can be found at www.escuelanueva.org, and information on ENI is available at http://www.eninternational.org.
Evening Reception: 6:30PM – 8:00PM, Dining Hall
After the Eggertsen Lecture, all are invited to a reception hosted by the Academy for Educational Development (AED). Many thanks to AED for hosting this reception.
Evening Reception: 7:00PM – 9:00PM, Room 802 International Affairs Building (118th Street & Amsterdam)
The "Mexicans" and Mexicanists are hosting a reception for all to attend. Many thanks to Carlos Ornelas and Regina Cortina for organizing this reception and for the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University for its support.
Evening Reception: 7:00PM – 9:00PM, 179 Grace Dodge Hall
This Africa SIG reception is part of a consultative meeting to develop capacity-building initiatives for scholars in Africa, with generous support from UNICEF and additional support provided by Cornell University. This reception was organized by TC's African Studies Working Group. The reception includes a book launch for N'dri Assie-Lumumba.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Conference Breakfast: 7:30AM – 9:00AM, 109 Zankel Building (Trustees Room)
University of Chicago Press is graciously hosting a continental breakfast at Teachers College to start the third day of the conference proceedings. The Trustees Room is 109 Zankel Building, just down the hallway from registration. Please come by for a cup of coffee and bite to eat before embarking on the third day of the conference proceedings. Many thanks to the University of Chicago Press for this generous hospitality.
Invited Panel on Innovative Partnerships for Reconstruction and Change: The Case of Liberia – 10:30AM, 229 Thompson
This will be chaired by Beverlee Bruce of Planning Alternatives for Change. Liberia is emerging from a protracted period of interrelated civil and regional conflicts that led to massive displacement and devastated its physical and political infrastructure. The democratically elected government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has placed education at the center of Liberia’s reconstruction efforts and donor interventions have focused on rebuilding institutional capacity to deliver quality education to all Liberian citizens. This panel will explore the unique partnerships that the Government of Liberia has fostered with bilateral, multilateral, non-governmental, and private philanthropic organizations to rebuild and strengthen its education system. Collaborative efforts for effective policy development and implementation, sector financing and teacher development will be discussed. Confirmed panelists include Christopher Ashford, Liberia Teacher Training Program/AED; Batuhan Aydagul, Ministry of Education; Hugh McLean, Open Society Foundation; Honorable James E. Roberts, Ministry of Education, Government of Liberia; Gary Stahl, UNICEF; and Aleesha Taylor, Open Society Foundation. Many thanks for Aleesha Taylor and Monisha Bajaj for organizing this panel.
New Scholars Workshop: All day, 3rd Floor of Grace Dodge Hall
Every year CIES holds a New Scholars Workshop at the annual CIES conference. This workshop is a unique opportunity for doctoral students to discuss their dissertation research with other doctoral students and experienced scholars in the field. The workshop will consist of formal presentation sessions, each followed by a feedback period, to allow participants adequate time for constructive discussion with students and resource faculty. A group luncheon for all workshop participants will be held between the morning and afternoon sessions. Congratulations to this year’s New Scholars and many thanks to the faculty mentors who make this initiative a success.
Organization and Institutions Fair: 12:00PM – 5:00PM, TC Dining Hall Downloand this Flyer (PDF)!
In order to take advatage of the conference location in New York City, TC Students have organized a fair at which locally-based (but globally-minded!) education organizations will have staffed tables with information about their organizations. This will be an excellent venue for social networking, especially for students attending this year's conference. Download the flyer to see the participating organizations. Many thanks to Christine Pagen and Dina Lopez for organizing this unique feature to the CIES conference.
UREAG Business Lunch Meeting 12:10PM – 1:30PM, 431 Horace Mann
Invited Lunchtime Plenary – Designing and Implementing Equity-enhancing Policies: 12:10PM – 1:30PM, 179 Grace Dodge Hall
This plenary session addresses the question "How can technical assistance influence education policies to improve equity?" Confirmed speakers include Luis Crouch, Research Vice President at the Research Triangle Institute International (RTI); Don Winkler, Senior Research Economist at RTI; and Frank Method, Director of International Education Policy and Systems at RTI. Experts are good at analyzing data and making general policy recommendations for improving equity in education. However, the persistence of inequities over decades, if not generations, is suggestive of the difficulties well-meaning education ministers may face in trying to implement equity-enhancing policies. In this session, experts with experience in advising governments on education equity will discuss the general challenges of bringing about change in developing countries. In addition, the specific experience of three countries--Brazil, South Africa, and Uganda--will be discussed. Special attention will be paid to the role of policy analysis and policy advice in influencing policymaking and lessons learned as to how such analysis should be carried out and disseminated. This plenary has been organized and will be chaired by Alec Gershberg of the New School.
Invited Lunchtime Plenary – The Role of Foundations in Education in Developing Countries: 12:10PM – 1:30PM, 229 Thompson
Historically, education in developing countries has been financed largely by governments, development agencies, and individuals. With mounting evidence that education is essential for individual, societal, and national development and well-being, foundations have responded by increasing their attention to and investments in education around the world. Yet the myriad efforts, new approaches, and unique role of philanthropy in education in the developing world are not well understood or examined. This panel will begin to explore recent efforts, partnerships, and trends among foundations seeking to increase attention and support to education in the developing world. Confirmed participants include: Cyrus Driver, Ford Foundation;
Suzanne Grant Lewis, Partnership for Higher Education in Africa; Peter McDermott, Children’s Investment Foundation Fund; Ian Macpherson, Open Society Foundation; Lynn Murphy, Senior Fellow, Hewlett Foundation. Many thanks to Lynn Murphy for organizing this panel.
UREAG Village Dialogue: 3:30PM – 5:00PM, 179 Grace Dodge Hall
This year’s UREAG Village Dialogue will feature a presentation by Robert Arnove called Joining Forces to Combat Inequality and Injustice, followed by a response from Miguel Escotet.
Socratic Conversation: What is Your Role in Achieving Equity in Education Around the World: 4:00PM – 5:00PM, Second Floor of TC's Gottesman Library
You are invited to join an intimate conversation (limited to 15) to share your concerns, values, questions, enthusiasms, and doubts about Equity in Education around the world. Come share your thoughts inspired by the Conference, and hear what others are finding most valuable, illuminating, and challenging.
The Socratic Conversations conducted by Ronald Gross are a unique tradition of the TC Gottesman Libraries, in which peers interact in a spirit of exploration and discovery – experiencing a form of mutual education widely applicable in education and cultural development. Refreshments will be provided. Thank you to the TC Gottesman Libraries for sponsoring this event for the CIES Conference.
George Kneller Lecture: 5:30PM – 6:30PM, Cowin Center
We are excited to announce that the keynote speaker for this year’s Kneller Lecture is J. Douglas Willms, Professor and Director of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). The title of Dr. Willms’ lecture is: Raising and Leveling the Learning Bar: International Perspectives. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Development at UNB and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the International Academy of Education, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Dr. Willms is an international leader in the field of human development. His use of large-scale surveys such as the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth and the Programme for International Student Assessment has demonstrated a clear relationship between the quality of early child development and performance in the education system and labor force.
Evening Receptions: 6:30PM – 8:00PM, Rooms TBA
After the Kneller Lecture, all are invited to receptions hosted by the following institutions:
The specific locations of the receptions at Teachers College will be announced. Many thanks to all of these institutions for providing such great hospitality for CIES conference attendees.
"Young" Academics Social: 8:00PM – 10:00PM, Dining Hall
For current students, graduates and the young at heart! Students from the International and Transcultural Studies Department (ITS) and TC Student Senate have organized an evening of networking, socializing, music, food and fun. Download this flyer for all of the details (PDF)! Thank you to Naaz Khan, Jaime Weiss, Jessica Lowden, and their committee members for their time and energy in planning this new conference event.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
CER Advisory Board Meeting 8:30AM – 10:30AM, 305 Russell Hall in the TC Library
Special Screening and Discussion of Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the New South Africa: 10:30AM – 12:00PM, 306 Russell Hall
Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the New South Africa (40 minutes, directed by Molly Blank) chronicles the lives of four students from a township school as they prepare for their MATRIC exams - importantly, the film reveals a personal look at the persistent inequality in under-resourced township schools in contrast with formerly white model C schools. This session has been organized by Carol Anne Spreen, University of Virginia. Discussants include: Aslam Fataar, University of Western Cape; Peter Kallaway, University of Western Cape; Crain Soudien, University of Cape Town. The discussants will raise issues about the salience of assessment despite the range of resources in South Africa and also discuss how schools need to change to better prepare all students to graduate.
Student Brown-Bag: Addressing Challenges Related to Teacher Compensation in Fragile States, Situations of Displacement and Post-Crisis Return: 12:10PM – 1:30PM, Whittier Cafe
Students, grab a sandwich and come to this unique opportunity to learn about the issues, challenges, good practices and case studies of teacher compensation. An overview of the inter-agency initiative on teacher compensation, including the process to develop the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Guidance Notes on Teacher Compensation, will be provided. This will be followed by a group discussion in order to provide input into the Guidance Notes and identify next steps in advocating for adequate teacher compensation in these challenging contexts. Many thanks to Hilary Nasin (TC Student and Program Manager of the Teachers Compensation Initiative at the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children) and her colleagues for organizing this special opportunity for CIES student attendees.
Gender Symposium Business Lunch Meeting: 12:10PM – 1:15PM, 363 Grace Dodge Hall
Regional (Midwest; Southeast; Northeast; West) Business Meetings: 12:10PM – 1:15PM, See program for rooms
Invited Lunchtime plenary on Education for All by 2015 – A Mid-term Assessment: 12:10PM – 1:30PM, 179 Grace Dodge Hall
This plenary is organized by and features as the main presenter Aaron Benavot, UNESCO and includes the following respondants: David Baker, Pennsylvania State University; Maureen Lewis, The World Bank and the Center for Global Development; and Amy Stambach, University of Wisconsin. Every year, the EFA Global Monitoring Report assesses where the world stands on its commitment to provide a basic education and ample learning opportunities to all children, youth and adults by 2015. This year’s report, Education for All by 2015: Will we make it? marks the mid-term point in this ambitious international movement to expand early childhood care and education, achieve free and universal primary education, realize gender parity and gender equality in education, reduce adult illiteracy and improve education quality. The plenary will include an overview of the Report’s key findings as well as critical comments by several respondents. Educational dimensions, geographical regions in which progress has been marked, and other areas where substantial challenges remain, will be highlighted. Specifically, the 2008 Report notes some real gains, especially in increasing access to primary school. Many governments have taken measures to reduce the costs of schooling and tackle obstacles to girls' education. Nevertheless, there are insufficient schools, teachers and learning materials to meet existing and future demand. Poverty and social marginality remain major barriers for educational inclusion. While policies addressing access and quality exist, implementation is often partial. Bolder action, from the earliest age, is required to reach the most vulnerable children and dramatically expand literacy programs for youth and adults.
This plenary session will be followed by a panel session from 1:30PM – 3:00PM in the same room entitled Education for All by 2015: A Critical Assessment that features Aaron Benavot, Senior Policy Analyst at UNESCO as chair, and the following invited presenters: Phillip Jones from the University of Sydney; Shireen Motala from the University of the Witwatersrand; Maureen Lewis from the Center for Global Development and the World Bank; and Stephen Heyneman from Vanderbilt University. Two notions—first, that all children, youth and adults have a right to complete a full cycle of good quality basic education that states are obligated to provide; and second, that such education should foster rich learning experiences with tangible individual, community and societal benefits--have become deeply embedded in the policies and priorities of national governments and international organizations. Beginning with Jomtien (1990) and especially after the World Education Forum (2000), the Education for All (EFA) agenda has become a broad-based commitment by multiple stakeholders (eg, multilateral and bilateral agencies, NGOs) to support government efforts to achieve EFA. The agenda (some say ‘movement’) covers efforts to provide early childhood. This panel critically assesses the state of the EFA agenda and asks: In what areas, and in which regions, has there been significant progress (or not)? Why has EFA progress been so uneven? In what ways have national educational priorities and genuine student learning been shaped by the adoption of the EFA agenda? What deeper dilemmas, new concerns and remaining challenges do stakeholders confront midway to the target date of 2015?
Panel with the Current Editors of International Education Research Journals: 3:30PM, 229 Thompson Hall
This is a panel discussion of Education Editors who currently edit international and comparative education research journals. Each editor will talk about the journal, editorial policy and special issues, and trends on scholarly research. This panel includes 14 editors, representing the following international journals in comparative education and policy research: Compare, Comparative Education, Comparative Education Review, Canadian and International Education Review, Current Issues in Comparative Education, European Education, International Journal of Educational Development, Globalisation, Societies, & Education, International Review of Education, Oxford Review of Education, World Studies in Education and other relevant journals as required. Many thanks to Joseph Zajda of Australian Catholic University for organizing this panel.
WCCES Board Meeting: 2:00PM – 4:30PM, 305 Russell Hall in the TC Library (closed meeting)
CIES Presidential Keynote – Steven J. Klees: 5:15PM – 6:15PM, Cowin Center
CIES General Assembly (Business Meeting): 6:15PM – 7:15PM, Cowin Center
Gala Dinner: 7:30PM – 10:00PM, Low Rotunda at Columbia University (Download the Gala Dinner details PDF.)
This year's Gala Dinner promises to be an unforgettable event. Please join us on Thursday, March 20 from 7:30PM – 10:00PM in the grand Rotunda of the Low Memorial Library, the architectural centerpiece of the Columbia campus, to celebrate the conference's success. Your $75.00 ticket to the Gala Dinner includes a reception with passed hors d'oeuvres; wine, beer and non-alcoholic beverages throughout the duration of the event; a plated entree; dessert and coffee/tea service; and entertainment. Tickets can be purchased online through the CIES 2008 conference registration website at: http://www.tc.edu/its/cies/registration.htm.
Friday, March 21st, 2008
The last panel session will be held from 10:30AM – 12:00PM.
New CIES Board Meeting: 12:00PM – 2:00PM, 305 Russell Hall in the TC Library (Closed meeting)
