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  Diane Ravitch

  Opening Keynote: Will School Reform
  Improve the Schools?

  Diane Ravitch is a historian of education at New York University. Her best-selling book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, has made her one of the nation’s most sought-after speakers on current issues. Ravitch will address the current state of American education and the many efforts underway to change it.

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  Rafe Esquith

  Closing Keynote: Lighting Their Fires

  Rafe Esquith, a fifth-grade public school teacher from Los Angeles, will share his school’s success story, despite its location in a Central Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, gangs, and violence. His exceptional classroom at Hobart Elementary— known simply as Room 56—is unlike any other in the country.

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