David Kirp, Advocate and Author, to Speak at Region V Head Start Conference
Posted by Julie Stone on August 22, 2011 under News | 
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David L. Kirp will speak at the Region V Leadership and Professional Development Conference for Head Start on Wednesday, November 2nd as part of the general session following lunch.
Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, is a former newspaper editor and policy consultant as well as an academic. His interests range widely across policy and politics. In his fifteen books and scores of articles in both the popular press and scholarly journals he has tackled some of America’s biggest social problems. His involvement with government agencies and foundations, as well as his teaching and his community activism, address these issues at ground level. Between the 2008 election and the Inauguration, he served on President Obama’s Transition Team. His new book, Kids First: Five Big Ideas for Transforming the Lives of Children (Public Affairs 2011) examines promising policy innovations that span the first generation of children’s lives. Excerpts and opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect and The Nation.
From the beginning of his career, as a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, children’s issues have been his passion. The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics (Harvard 2007) emerged from his spending several years crisscrossing the country, crouching in pre-k classrooms and nurseries across the country and talking with experts in the field.
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