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Save the Date: The Moral Imperative for Educational Equity
August 7, 2020
2020 Willard M. Kiplinger Lecture on Ethics in American Society:
The Moral Imperative for Educational Equity
with John B. King, Jr., JD, PhD
August 26
7 PM
free, online
open to first 500 registrants
registration required at bit.ly/johnbking
An unprecedented pandemic closed schools in March--to the universal, but glaringly unequal, detriment of students. Now, Covid-19 threatens the new academic year. Some parents have hired tutors for their kids. But what about families who cannot privately fund their children’s schooling? The inequity gap widens. Please join us to hear John B. King, Jr., President and CEO of The Education Trust and former U.S. Secretary of Education, address the costs to racially or financially disadvantaged students and, ultimately, all of us when educational opportunity fails to play fair. Save the date and register today!
