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Monday, 7 January 2013

postheadericon The Critical Role of High Quality Early Education in Improving Educational Outcomes

The Critical Role of High Quality Early Education in Improving Educational Outcomes Video Clips. Duration : 34.43 Mins.


Oscar Barbarin is the Lila L. and Douglas J. Hertz Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychology at Tulane University. Dr. Barbarin earned the Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Rutgers University in 1975 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in social psychology at Stanford University in 1983. He has held positions in Psychology, Social Work, and Afro-American & African Studies at the University of Michigan and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and was president of the American Orthopsychiatry Association from 2001-2003. His research addresses the effects of early childhood intervention and the etiology of achievement and underachievement in ethnic minority children. He has also completed longitudinal studies of the effects of poverty, violence and family life from birth to age 5, and the socio-emotional development of South African Children. Dr. Barbarin has received several distinguished honors for his research and scholarship, including grants from the WT Grant Foundation, the WK Kellogg Foundation, and the National Institute of Health. Dr. Barbarins presentation this morning is titled

Sunday, 23 December 2012

postheadericon Improving Race Relations: An Interview with John Perkins

Improving Race Relations: An Interview with John Perkins Tube. Duration : 57.48 Mins.


Racial justice has been a major theme in the life of John Perkinstwo of his books are Let Justice Roll Down and With Justice for All. Perkins discusses justice as it relates to his own pilgrimage in Mississippi, as well as his national efforts to speak about racial justice to our nation in this interview with Douglas Daniels of UC Santa Barbara. Series: Let There Be Light [9/2005] [Humanities] [Show ID: 11085]