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Joe Nathan, expert on charter schools and how to improve public schools, to speak

By Amy Gage
November 17, 2002

What's new in the charter school movement in Minnesota, a state that launched this national trend? What are recent developments in public-school reform?

Those questions and others will be answered in an address Tuesday, Nov. 19, at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Joe Nathan, director of the Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, will speak at 7 p.m. in the Trollhaugen Room of Buntrock Commons.

His talk is free and open to the public.

Nathan writes a weekly column for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Rochester Post-Bulletin and Duluth News Tribune and has been widely quoted in the New York Times, USA Today and other national media. His books include Charter Schools: Creating Hope and Opportunity in American Schools and Micro-Myths: Exploring the Limits of Learning with Computers.

The Center for School Change works with communities and schools to significantly improve public education. It recently was awarded an $8 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "I'm interested in public education and how we as citizens can do a better job of supporting our public schools," says economics associate professor Kathy Chadwick, who holds the Husby-Johnson Chair of Business and Economics at St. Olaf, which is sponsoring Nathan's visit to campus.

Nathan holds a bachelor's degree from Carleton College in Northfield and a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.