Lecture set on public schools

Monday, Nov. 29, 2004 | 8:16 a.m.

New York Times reporter and author Abby Goodnough will discuss "Reality vs. Rhetoric: Inside America's Public School System" in a lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Hendrix Education Auditorium on the UNLV campus.

Goodnough will address the realities of teaching in the public school system as portrayed in her book, "Ms. Moffett's First Year." The book tells the story of Donna Moffett, a legal secretary who answered an ad for the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which sought to recruit "talented professionals" from other fields to teach in some of the city's worst schools.

The lecture, cosponsored by the New York Times and UNLV, is part of a larger partnership between the two organizations that seeks to help education professors teach prospective teachers how to utilize newspapers in the classroom.

The event is free, but registration is requested. Call 895-3375.

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