Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 21, 2000

Volume 28, Number 29

Noted educator David Tyack
to deliver the Giamatti Lecture

David B. Tyack, the Vida Jacks Professor of Education and professor of history at Stanford University, will present the Toni S. and A. Bartlett Giamatti Lecture on Saturday, April 29.

Tyack's lecture, titled "Patriotic Literacy: American History Textbooks Revisited," will take place at 1:30 p.m. in Sudler Hall of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The public is invited to this free event.

Considered to be the dean of the American history of education, Tyack's research has emphasized the social aspects of his field. He has confronted such wide-ranging issues as urban education, educational leadership, vocational education, the impact of economic crisis on schools, coeducation and school reform. He has explored how race, class, religion, ethnicity and gender have shaped and been shaped by public education at all levels.

Tyack is the author of 10 books, including "The One Best System," a reexamination of the progressive movement in education; "Learning Together," the first critical study of coeducation in American public schools, which Tyack coauthored with his wife; and "Tinkering Toward Utopia," a study of school reform coauthored with Larry Cuban, which won the 1995 Stone Award for outstanding education and society publication from Harvard Press.

Tyack has received a number of awards and honors, including the Spencer Senior Scholar Grant and the American Educational Research Association Distinguished Career Award. He has been vice president of the American Educational Research Association, president of the History of Education Society and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences.

Tyack's lecture will be followed at 3 p.m. by a panel of Teacher Preparation Program alumni, who will relate their subsequent careers to their experience in the program. Participants in the panel discussion will include Lynn Jeffries '83 B.A., principal, Amity Regional Junior High School, Bethany, Connecticut; David Levin '92 B.A., Knowledge is Power Program, New York City Public Schools; Pablo Munoz Jr. '91 B.A., interim director of instruction, curriculum and funded programs, Elizabeth Public Schools, New Jersey; and Stefan Pryor '94 B.A., '98 J.D., executive director, Breakthrough for Learning, New York City Partnership.

This event is part of a ceremony honoring Edith Nye MacMullen, who is retiring from the directorship of the Teacher Preparation Program after 27 years of service. MacMullen came to Yale in 1972 with a background in secondary teaching. After less than a year as the supervisor of practice teaching, MacMullen became the director of the program, eventually guiding the pedagogical careers of hundreds of Yale students.

In 1991, MacMullen published "In the Case of True Education: Henry Barnard and 19th-Century Educational Reform." In 1995, she was honored by the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa with the William Clyde DeVane Medal, which honors distinction in lifetime scholarship and undergraduate teaching.

The Giamatti lectureship honors the late president of Yale University and his widow. For more information about the lecture and panel discussion, please contact Professor William Lichten at (203) 387-5730 or william.lichten@yale.edu; Judith Hackman at (203) 432-2757; or Stephen Lassonde at (203) 432-0744.

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