The closing event for the Spring 2010 Civic Discourse Series: Literacy and Democracy will feature Nicholas Negroponte, “A Mission Not a Market: One Laptop per Child.” The event will take place on Tuesday, April 27 @ 6pm at the Boston Athenaeum (10 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston). Reservations are being accepted now – at 617-720-7600. Please… Continue reading A Mission, Not a Market: One Laptop per Child
Join us, Thursday, April 8 @ 6:00pm, at the Boston Athenaeum (10 1/2 Beacon Street) for a panel discussion on the importance of “Prison LIteracy.” The panel will feature Jill McDonough, poet; Steven Spitzer, professor of Sociology, Suffolk University; Robert Waxler, professor of English, UMass Dartmouth; moderated by Jack Gantos, author. JILL MCDONOUGH’s first book of… Continue reading Prison Literacy
Tonight (March 22) at 6:00pm in the C. Walsh Theatre Distinguished Visiting Scholar Viola Vaughn discusses her work in Kaolack, Senegal with the Women’s Health Education and Prevention Strategies Alliance (WHEPSA). VIOLA VAUGHN is the founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Health Education and Prevention Strategies Alliance (WHEPSA) and 10,000 Girls in Kaolack, Senegal,… Continue reading Teaching Literacy in Senegal
Thursday, March 11, 2010, the Boston Athenaeum together with the College of Arts and Sciences, Suffolk University present the second event in the 2010 Civic Discourse Series: Literacy and Democracy – Adult Literacy in the Digital Age. The panel features Joanne Appleton Arnarud, Executive Director, First Literacy; Linda Nathan, founding Headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy; and Wick… Continue reading Adult Literacy in the Digital Age