The 2023 Sachs Lecture
February 7, 2023
Ezekiel Dixon-Román is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. His research seeks to make cultural and critical theoretical interventions toward rethinking and reconceptualizing the technologies and practices of quantification as mediums and agencies of systems of sociopolitical relations whereby race and other assemblages of difference are byproducts. He is the author of Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction & Quantification in Education (2017, University of Minnesota Press); recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association. He is currently working on a book project that examines the haunting formations of the transparent subject in algorithmic governance and the potential for transformative technopolitical systems
Julius and Rosa Sachs Distinguished Lecturer
Lecture Series Background
Julius Sachs (1849-1934) was born in Baltimore, the son of a rabbi. His older brothers became investment experts, forming a Sachs investment firm. At the time of his marriage to Rosa Sachs, the firm merged with rival Goldman. Upon receiving his doctorate in Europe, he returned to New York to found the Sachs Collegiate Institute for Boys and Girls, which is today known as the Dwight School. In 1902, Julius Sachs was invited by Dean Russell to join the faculty at Teachers College. His fields included the classics, philology, archeology, and art. Sachs was part of the Committee of Eight who, in 1909, wrote a new curriculum for teaching history which became a model for teaching social studies in the elementary grades.
Dr. and Mrs. Julius Sachs established the lecture series in 1924 with the purpose of making it possible to bring distinguished visiting lecturers to campus, chosen by the Dean, to deliver lectures "on some phase of education best suited to promotion of progress in secondary education."
Past Lecturers
| Year(s) | Name | Title |
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| 2022-2023 | Ezekiel Dixon-Román | Surrogate Pedagogy: AI Robots & Racial Hauntings |
| 2020-2021 | John L. Jackson, Jr. | What Scholarship Looks and Sounds Like: Toward An Auto-ethnography of Multimodality |
| 2017-2018 | Edward Warburton | |
| 2016-2017 | Mary Atwater | Action! Equity and Social Justice |
| 2014-2015 | Kenneth Zeichner | The Struggle for the Soul of Teaching and Teacher Education: Imagining a More Democratic Future for Teacher Preparation in the U.S. |
| Viv Ellis | Transforming the Landscape of Teacher Education: Possible Futures for the Profession and Universities Working Together | |
| Wanda Blanchett |
Moving Towards an Equity and Social Justice Agenda in the Preparation of Teacher Educators |
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| Thomas Philip | Advancing Teacher Education's Engagement with issues of Race, Racism, & Racial Justice: Working at the Intersections and Tensions of Social Theory and the Learning Sciences | |
| Marilyn Cochran-Smith | Ed Reform’ and Teacher Education: The Policy Paradigm that Is Reforming (Deforming?) Teacher Preparation in the U.S. | |
| David Berliner | Evaluating Teacher Education and Teachers Using Student Assessments: A Deliberate and Destructive Misunderstanding of Teachers’ Effects | |
| Lauren Anderson | Navigate, Regenerate, and Agitate: The Politics, Purpose, and Pedagogy of Teacher Educator Preparation | |
| 2012-2013 | Ryan S. J. D. Baker | Educational Data Mining: Predict the Future, Change the Future |
| 2011-2012 | Pam Grossman | Pam Grossman |
| 2010-2011 | Samuel Lucas | On Exposure to Discrimination When Some Are More Equal Than Others: Equalizing Opportunity in a Resistant Society Social Sabotage: The Persistence of Societal Dysfunctions Despite Our Best Efforts |
| 2005-2006 | Carolyn Riehl | Something Imagined, Not Recalled: Leading America's Schools Beyond their Maximum Lifespan |
| 2003-2004 | Richard Rothstein | Accountability and Closing the Gap |
| 2002-2003 | Elizabeth Ellsworth | Around and About the Limits of Education |
| 2001-2002 | Larry Cuban | Why Is It So Hard to Get Good Schools? |
| 2000-2001 | Amy Stuart Wells | |
| 1999-2000 | Frank Newman | |
| 1998-1999 | Ursula Cassanova David Charles Berliner | |
| 1997-1998 | Henry M. Levin | A Dream for All Children: Accelerated Schools; Educational Vouchers: Arming Ourselves for the Current Debate |
| 1996 | James Banks | |
| 1991 | Philip Jackson | Untaught Lessons: Three Teachers Recalled |
| 1976 | A.H. Passow | |
| 1959 | K.G. Saiyidain | Education and the Art of Living |
| 1954 | Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery of Alemein | Education for Leadership |
| 1951 | T.H. Briggs | The Secondary School Curriculum |
| 1946 | J.B. Conant | Public Education and the Structure of American Society |
| 1938 | C.L.A. Bougle | The French Conception of -'Culture Generale' and its Influence Upon Instruction |
| 1935 | D.E. Smith | Challenging Problems in American Schools of Education |
| 1931 | C.H. Becker | Secondary Education and Teacher Training in Germany |
| 1930 | M.E. Sadler | Outlook in Secondary Education |
| 1929 | F.J.E. Woodbridge | Contrasts in Education |