Programs & Events
The Educational Outcomes of Children Living in NYCHA
Date: Wednesday, November 12th 2008
The first breakfast in this series focused on the experiences of students living in NYCHA. A recent Furman Center-Institute for Education and Social Policy report found that children living in public housing perform worse in school than other poor children. The panel will review these findings and explore what can be done to improve the life chances of children living in public housing.
Panelists:
• Vicki Been, Director of the Furman Center and Elihu Root Professor of Law at New York University School of Law
• Nicholas Bloom, Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at the New York Institute of Technology and author of Public Housing that Worked
• Richard R. Buery Jr., Executive Director of Groundwork Inc.
• Amy Ellen Schwartz, Director of the Institute for Education and Social Policy and Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics at NYU’s Wagner and Steinhardt Schools
• Dennis Walcott, New York City Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development
