Teacher Training Topic of Lecture at UC Davis

Lee Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will discuss the link between research universities and teacher training at the University of California, Davis, on Monday, Oct. 23. His talk, "Two Cultures, One Mission: Research Universities and the Education of Teachers," is the final lecture in the Chancellor's Forum Series on the role of the research university in the future of K-12 education. It will be followed by a panel discussion with David Gordon, superintendent of the Elk Grove Unified School District, and Patricia Gandara, an associate professor in the Division of Education at UC Davis. Shulman's lecture will begin at 4:10 p.m. in the University Club dining room, and the panel discussion will follow. The lecture and discussion are free and open to the public. Special invitations have been extended to the leadership of the university's partnership schools and districts. School/University Partnerships at UC Davis has invited teachers, administrators and parents with children at the partnership schools in the Sacramento City Unified School District to attend the lecture and a later discussion and dinner. Stan Hitomi, a science teacher at Monte Vista High School in Danville and a scholar of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, will lead a discussion for guests from the Sacramento school district. The discussion will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the dining room and the dinner will follow in the lounge and club rooms 1 and 2. The first of the two other lectures in this year's series addressed federal and state government perspectives on the role of universities in K-12 education; the second explored technical, cultural and political challenges in outreach school partnerships.

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Julia Ann Easley, General news (emphasis: business, K-12 outreach, education, law, government and student affairs), 530-752-8248, jaeasley@ucdavis.edu