Originally published on the USC Price website, February 11, 2015 Television icon LeVar Burton discussed how he’d like to see storytelling better integrated into education during a Jan. 28 Holt lecture series event presented by the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise. Read more…
Holt Distinguished Lecture A Conversation with LeVar Burton The Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture is a speaker’s series established by longtime Price School board of councilor’s member Dennis Holt (founding chairman and CEO of U.S. International Media) and his wife, Brooks. The Holt programs support prominent practitioners, influential policymakers, Read more…
by Justine Dodgen and Raphael Bostic Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton One in four children in America is functionally illiterate, according to LeVar Burton, host and executive producer of the well-known children’s show, Reading Rainbow. Many recent studies have pointed out that America has fallen from the top ranks of educational standards, Read more…