Poverty and Education Forum: Audio and Video Archive

Rafael Gomez organized an excellent Forum Wednesday evening on Poverty and Education. Participants include:

• Tom Kaplan: Associate Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty kaplan at ssc.wisc.edu
• Ray Allen, Former Madison Board of Education Member, Publisher - Madison Times
• Maria Covarrubias: A Teacher at Chavez Elementary mcovarrubias at madison.k12.wi.us
• Mary Kay Baum: Executive Director; Madison-Area Urban Ministry mkb at emum.org
• Bob Howard: Madison School District rhoward at madison.k12.wi.us

Listen to the entire event (70 minutes) via a mp3 file on your ipod/mp3 player or watch the entire video here. Individual presentations are available below:

Maria Covarrubias: A Teacher at Chavez Elementary describes her journey from a California migrant worker to a UW Educated Madison Teacher. Video

	Tom Kaplan describes how we define poverty. Video
	Ray Allen describes the main stream media's images of poverty. Video
	Mary Kay Baum describes her views of Poverty and Education, along with some local data. Video
	Bob Howard describes growing up in Milwaukee, completing his degree and his day to day interactions with poverty in the Madison Schools. Video

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 27, 2005 10:07 PM
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