Ian Rowe, interviewed by Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Ian Rowe and Alka Sehgal Cuthbert discuss how the well-intentioned work in schools does not encourage students to see points of connection but encourages fragmentation by putting kids in identity boxes.
Ian advocates for a different approach, one in which schools aspire to uphold the values of equality of opportunity, individual dignity, and common humanity.
IAN ROWE
Ian Rowe is a husband, father, educator, and social entrepreneur who, for over thirty years, has founded and led public, private, and non-profit organizations that empower young people to improve their lives. He was educated at New York City public schools K-12, attended Brooklyn Technical High School, Cornell University College of Engineering, and earned his MBA at Harvard Business School. He had the honor to work at Teach For America, the White House, MTV, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and for the last ten years was CEO of Public Prep, a network of public charter schools in the South Bronx and Lower East Side of Manhattan.
He is currently a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Woodson Center, a writer for the 1776 Unites campaign, a Senior Advisor for FAIR For All, and founder and CEO of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-based International Baccalaureate high schools in the Bronx.
He is the author of the book Agency which seeks to empower young people to overcome the victimhood narrative and determine their own pathway to a self-determined life.
DR. ALKA SEHGAL CUTHBERT
Dr. Alka Sehgal Cuthbert is Head of Education and Coordinator of Don't Divide Us — a campaign that opposes racially divisive ideas being introduced, especially in schools.
She has worked in education as a teacher, lecturer, and advisor for over 30 years and is co-editor of What Should Schools Teach? Disciplines, subjects and the pursuit of truth.
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