Join us at a special PATH to Better event featuring Dr. Robert Putnam, Harvard professor and best-selling author. Dr. Putnam is recognized internationally for his study on opportunity gaps facing children today. The first 150 people to register will receive a free copy of Our Kids, and Dr. Putnam will sign books at the conclusion of his talk.
Registration required.
Event scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., and check-in for attendees will open at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Putnam will do a book signing at the conclusion of his talk.
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More about Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of opportunity. But over the last quarter century, we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge.
In Our Kids, Robert Putnam offers a personal and authoritative look at this new American crisis, beginning with the example of his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. The vast majority of those students went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have faced diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich, middle class, and poor kids from cities and suburbs across the country, brilliantly blended with the latest social-science research.
Our Kids offers a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence: “No one can finish this book and feel complacent about equal opportunity.” (The New York Times Book Review).
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More about Professor Putnam
Robert Putnam, Ph.D., is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. In addition to teaching, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. He has received numerous scholarly honors, including the Skytte Prize, the most prestigious global award in political science, and the National Humanities Medal, the nation’s highest honor for contributions to the humanities. He has written 14 books, translated into more than 20 languages, including Bowling Alone and Making Democracy Work, both among the most cited publications in the social sciences in the last half century. His 2010 book, co-authored with David E. Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, won the American Political Science Association’s 2011 Woodrow Wilson award as the best book in political science. He has consulted for the last three American presidents, the last three British prime ministers, the last French president, prime ministers from Ireland to Singapore, and hundreds of grassroots leaders and activists in many countries.
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