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In this lecture Pedro Noguera explored a number of strategies that schools have developed to form effective collaborative relationships with community-based organizations to counter the adverse influence of poverty on student learning and child developmen

Featuring Jeannine Sato, Ron Haskins, Odell Cleveland, David Drugman and Terri Helmlinger-Ratcliff. This seminar focused on evidence-based jobs programs that may help alleviate unemployment and poverty in North Carolina. Policy experts and practitioners addressed the link between unemployment and poverty and highlighted opportunities for greater prosperity.

Edward Girardet, journalist and author of the recently-published book “Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan,” will speak on his experiences reporting from Afghanistan and will discuss the role of media in addressing ongoing humanitarian situations.

James Kvaal will focus on the key obstacles to college completion, the Obama administration’s efforts to address them, and how states, colleges, and researchers can help. Kvaal is deputy under secretary at the U.S. Department of Education. He assists the under secretary in overseeing policies, programs, and activities related to postsecondary education, vocational and adult education, and federal student aid. In 2009 and 2010, Kvaal was a special assistant to President Obama for economic policy. At the White House, Kvaal worked on community college reform, simplifying the student aid application and student debt, and on labor and retirement issues. Before joining the administration, Kvaal was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the policy director for John Edwards' presidential campaign, where he coordinated the development of the candidate's domestic policy platform, including plans to create universal health care, fight poverty, and address climate change. He has also worked on higher education policy in the Clinton White House and for the House Committee on Education and Labor as well as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. His writings on domestic policy have appeared in The New Republic, The American Prospect, Tax Notes, and other publications. He holds degrees earned with honors from Stanford University and Harvard Law School.

Speaker(s): Dr. Anthony So, Introductory remarks; Dr. Peter Mugyenyi,, Founder and Director of the Join Clinical Research Center in Kampala, Uganda, speaks on the impact of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in the Ugandan context and the current strategy to harness HIV/AIDS treatment as a means of prevention. Dr. Mugyenyi also addresses the great importance of U.S. foreign aid, a necessary component, he argues, for true success in the fight against AIDS.

2011-04-06, Duke Center for Child & Family Policy Sulzberger Colloqium, Sanford School of Public Policy, CCFP. In this presentation Ichiro Kawachi will provide an update on the burgeoning field of “social capital” research. Ichiro Kawachi is professor of social epidemiology and chair of the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health.