Institute on the American Dream, Penn State Erie
October at Logan House Penn State Erie 7 – 9 pm
Erie and the American Dream - Are we losing it?
Hosted by Charles Brock
Oct 1 - Erie Spirit – Up or Down? – Mayor Joe Sinnot, Tom Hagen, Barry Grossman, Charles Kennedy, Father Steve Simon, and John Vanco
Oct 8 - Erie Education - for Whom and for What? – Dean Baldwin, Marnie Evanoff, William Garvey, and Dave Hoderny
Oct 15 - Erie Poverty - Growing or Diminishing? – Amy Cuzzola-Kern, Laura Lewis, Royal P Johnson, Carl Kallgran, and Todd Nesbit
Oct 29 - Erie Religion – Divisive or Uniting? – Rabbi John Bush, Mary Al-Haswani, Very Rev John Downey, and Sister Christine Vladimiroff
‘It’s about whether we’re serious about remaining a great nation. We don’t act like it. Here’s a staggering statistic: According to the Education Trust, the U.S. is the only industrialized country in which young people are less likely than their parents to graduate from high school.
We can’t put our people to work. We can’t educate the young. We can’t keep the infrastructure in good repair. It’s hard to believe that this nation could be so dysfunctional at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. It’s tragic.’ [Bob Herbert NY Times May 26, 2009]
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