Penn State professor to speak

This event has been cancelled for February 10, but may be rescheduled for a later date.

Learn how people who stood up against corporate hog farming in Pennsylvania can serve as a model for citizens to resist "high stakes testing," like that required by No Child Left Behind legislation in a lecture by Patrick Shannon, professor of education at Penn State University.

Shannon, a critic of “high stakes testing,” will deliver a powerful indictment against No Child Left Behind in a talk titled "Hog Farms in Pennsylvania—Rethinking Literacy and Democratic Values" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb.10 in Jordan Lecture Hall in the Carver Science Center on campus.

A former preschool and primary grade school teacher, Shannon is currently professor and coordinator of graduate studies in language and literacy education in the College of Education at Penn State University. He is the author of “Broken Promises;” “text, lies & videotape;” “Reading Poverty;” “Becoming Political” and other books which consider various connections between literacy education and democracy. A Fellow of the National Council of Researchers on Language and Literacy, he is the youngest member of the International Reading Association Reading Hall of Fame.

Said Sharon Jensen, assistant professor of education at Simpson, “As an Iowan concerned about the path of literacy education and our local environment, I find his ciriticism very compelling. He describes how the people of Pennsylvania have taken a firm stand against corporate hog farms and his argument is that their approach (democracy in action) would serve us well in the rethinking of public education policies, especially in light of current federal government impositions.

The lecture is free and open to the public.


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Penn State professor to speak This event has been cancelled for February 10, but may be rescheduled for a later date. Learn how people who stood up against corporate hog farming in Pennsylvania can serve as a model for citizens to resist "high stakes testing," like that required by No Child Left Behind legislation in a lecture by Patrick Shannon, professor of education at Penn State University. Shannon, a critic of “high stakes testing,” will deliver a powerful indictment against No Child Left Behind in a talk titled "Hog Farms in Pennsylvania—Rethinking Literacy and Democratic Values" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb.10 in Jordan Lecture Hall in the Carver Science Center on campus. A former preschool and primary grade school teacher, Shannon is currently professor and coordinator of graduate studies in language and literacy education in the College of Education at Penn State University. He is the author of “Broken Promises;” “text, lies & videotape;” “Reading Poverty;” “Becoming Political” and other books which consider various connections between literacy education and democracy. A Fellow of the National Council of Researchers on Language and Literacy, he is the youngest member of the International Reading Association Reading Hall of Fame. Said Sharon Jensen, assistant professor of education at Simpson, “As an Iowan concerned about the path of literacy education and our local environment, I find his ciriticism very compelling. He describes how the people of Pennsylvania have taken a firm stand against corporate hog farms and his argument is that their approach (democracy in action) would serve us well in the rethinking of public education policies, especially in light of current federal government impositions. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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