Distributing ‘Netbooks’ to All of Argentina’s Secondary School Students: An Insider’s View of the Politics, Policies and Effects of ‘Conectar Igualdad’

Monday, October 14, 2011

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Pless Hall

82 Washington Square East

5^th floor conference room

RSVP:

Dr. Silvina Gvirtz

Incoming Minister of Education for the Province of Buenos Aires

Associate Professor of Education, Universidad de San Andrés

Silvina Gvirtz (PhD., Education, University of Buenos Aires) is Associate Professor of Education at the Universidad de San Andrés, Director of the MA program in the School of Education, Researcher in the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina and the Director of “Escuelas del Bicentenario” Project for the International Institute for Educational Planning-UNESCO and the Universidad de San Andrés.

She has authored or edited over twenty books and has published articles in a number of journals such as Educational Management Administration and Leadership, Comparative Education, History of Education Review, Assessment in Education, Prospects, Science and Education, Science and Education, and Propuesta Educativa. In 2003 she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, for the project: “A comparison of models of school governance in Argentina, Brazil, and Nicaragua.” In 2004 she was awarded the 20° anniversary prize of the National Academy of Education of Argentina for her book “De la tragedia a la esperanza: Hacia un sistema educativo justo, democrático y de calidad”