The 15th Annual ASSET Educational Technology Conference 

Monday, March 11th, 2013

7:45am to 3:00pm

The Huntington Hilton, Melville, NY

  This year’s theme, Mandate Overload: Essential Technologies for Today’s Schools, speaks to the challenges surrounding various state mandates and how technology is becoming increasingly significant in adapting to these new requirements.  We intend on providing vendor exhibits promoting helpful solutions and various breakout sessions to demonstrate how schools and teachers are addressing these challenges.

SPECIAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER –

Diane Ravitch - Historian of Education

http://dianeravitch.com

 Diane Ravitch is a research professor of education at New York University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. 

A prolific writer who has published more than 500 articles and reviews for scholarly and popular publications on the subject, Ravitch is internationally acclaimed for her expertise on past and present education. 

Her most recent book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, makes the case that public education today is in peril. Drawing on her over 40 years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today’s most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized testing, punitive accountability, and the multiplication of charter schools, and offers a clear prescription for improving American public schools. 

She currently shares a blog called Bridging Differences with Deborah Meier, hosted by Education Week, and also blogs for Politico.com and The Huffington Post. In 2010, the National Education Association selected her as its “Friend of Education” for the year. Ravitch was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, by the following institutions: Williams College, Reed College, Amherst College, the State University of New York, Ramapo College, St. Joseph’s College of New York, Middlebury College Language Schools, and Union College. 

She serves on the board of the Core Knowledge Foundation, Common Core, the Albert Shanker Institute of the American Federation of Teachers, and Common Good. She is an honorary life trustee of the New York Public Library and a former Guggenheim Fellow. 

Registration for this event is just $85, and includes all the workshops, continental breakfast and a fabulous buffet lunch. Join us by clicking here.