“Making Schools Work”

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Hedrick Smith, a Pulitzer prize-winning former reporter for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent, is one of the country’s most distinguished journalists. In “Making School Work,” his sixth prime-time mini-series for PBS, Smith turned his attention to the schools and districts across the country that have improved academic performance for poor and minority students. His two-hour documentary tracks the work of highly effective schools—from a KIPP charter school in Houston that is transforming the lives of low-income Latino students to a high school in Kentucky that has found new ways to engage struggling students. Hedrick Smith will show highlights from the documentary, describe what these schools tell us about school reform and discuss what educators, the public, and parents can learn from the schools and districts that are reaching the children too long neglected by our systems of public education.

Speaker:
Hedrick Smith, Hedrick Smith, Executive Producer and Correspondent, Hedrick Smith Productions, Chevy Chase, MD