Brown University Alumni Association of Hong Kong
Central, Hong Kong
December 7 2023, 7:00 PM China Standard Time
- Location
- The Chariot Club
- 3/F Melbourne Plaza
33 Queen's Road
- Central 00000
- CHHKG
- Cost
We are incredibly excited to host Professor Kenneth Wong, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair for Education Policy at Brown University. Please join us for what will surely be an illuminating discussion.
“Redesigning Urban School Districts to Support School Improvement in the United States”
About half of the public school students attend schools in the largest 500 school districts in the United States. What are the challenges and opportunities in large urban school districts? Professor Wong will examine some of the promising district-wide strategies in the areas of governance, innovation, and human capital development. He wil also discuss the implications for the 11 urban districts in the Greater Bay Area such as Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau. This talk offers an opportunity for Professor Wong to share his research and policy experience on issues of urban system improvement.
Biography
Kenneth Wong is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair for Education Policy at Brown University. He has conducted extensive research in the politics of education, federalism, policy innovation, outcome-based accountability, and governance redesign (including city and state takeover, management reform, and Title I school-wide reform). His research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Education, the Social Science Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the British Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has advised the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Secretaries of Education and Interior, state legislature, governors, mayors, and the leadership in several large urban school systems on how to redesign the accountability framework.