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ESC Region 12 Partners WIth Baylor University to Present Dr. David Berliner

David C. Berliner is Regents’ Professor of Education; Mary Lou Fulton College of Education; Arizona State University. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts, at Teachers College and Stanford University, as well as at universities in Australia, The Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and Switzerland.

He is a member of the National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a past president of both the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Division of Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is the recipient of awards for distinguished contributions from both the APA and AERA, and the National Education Association (NEA).

He is co-author (with B. J. Biddle) of the best seller The Manufactured Crisis, co-author (with Ursula Casanova) of Putting Research to Work, and co-author (with N. L. Gage) of the textbook Educational Psychology, now in its 6th edition. He is co-editor of the first Handbook of Educational Psychology and the books Talks to Teachers, and Perspectives on Instructional Time. His newest book, Collateral Damage (with Sharon Nichols) is about the corruption of professional educators through high-stakes testing. Professor Berliner also has authored more than 200 published articles, technical reports, and book chapters.

Two sessions will be held with the first being Friday, February 6, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at ESC Region 12 in Waco. Dr. Berliner will hold a face to face session on "How out-of-School Factors Affect School Achievement". The second session will be offered at the Bennett Auditorium on the Baylor University campus on Friday, February 6, 2009 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m . Dr. Berliner will lecture on "How High-Stakes Tests Have Hurt America's Chances to be Economically Competitive".

Register for this free session at ESC Region 12 with number 30899. For more information, download the brochure (PDF file).

No registration is required for the Baylor lecture.