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YEP-NYC Edu Book Club

YEP-NYC is excited to announce our new Edu-Book Club!

Here's the rundown:
  1. Every 1-2 months we'll pick an education-related read and schedule an intimate gathering for discussion.
  2. Spots for the meeting are first-come-first serve, and will be limited to 15 attendees to make it easy to find a place to meet, and to ensure a participative discussion and an opportunity to get to know one another.
  3. After the 15 spots are taken, we'll start a waiting list, so that if plans change and you can no longer attend, we can give your spot to the next person on the list.

So with this in mind, please:
  1. Only RSVP if you intend to read the book of the month, or if you've read it recently enough that you'll be able to discuss it.
  2. Change your RSVP if you can no longer attend, so that we can offer your spot to the next person on the waiting list.
If you are interested in participating in a YEP-NYC Edu Book Club, please check our events page to browse upcoming  events. If you are interested in learning more about YEP-NYC's Edu-Book Club, please email us. 

YEP-NYC Edu-Book club selections:

February 5, 2013
Discussing Michelle Rhee - Radical: Fighting to Put Students First 
Michelle Rhee, founder of the organization Students First and former Chancellor of DC Public Schools, will be reading from her new book, Radical: Fighting to Put Students First at Barnes and Noble on the Upper East Side on Tuesday, February 5, at 7 pm. For this month's Edu-Book Club, we'll be meeting up at Molly's Snug (the quiet and cozy back bar at Molly Pitcher's Ale House) immediately following the event to discuss the reading, as well as the policies and prescriptions that have brought Michelle Rhee equal parts commendation and condemnation. To inform the discussion, we suggest checking out the hour-long PBS documentary on Rhee's term as DC Public Schools' Chancellor, which can be viewed online here. Please RSVP if you plan to join us at Molly's Snug. 

December 4, 2012 
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
From Harvard Educational Review: In Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Lisa Delpit, a MacArthur fellow and Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Educational Leadership at Georgia State University, provides an important yet typically avoided discussion of how power imbalances in the larger U.S. society reverberate in classrooms. Through telling excerpts of conversations with teachers, students, and parents from varied cultural backgrounds, Delpit shows how everyday interactions are loaded with assumptions made by educators and mainstream society about the capabilities, motivations, and integrity of low-income children and children of color.

August 22, 2012
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
20 years after it was first published, we'll revisit the groundbreaking NY Times Bestseller that brought to light the shocking disparities in American public education. How do racial and economic segregation, bias, and funding and staffing discrepancies affect a child's schooling experience? How have American society, the education landscape and the urban classroom changed since Jonathan Kozol visited and documented conditions in schools across the country? And of course, what did you think of the book? Our inaugural YEP-NYC Book Club selection is also in honor of the release of Kozol's latest book, Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-five Years Among the Poorest Children in America. Kozol will be reading from his new book at Barnes and Noble Union Square on August 29.