“Value-added” measures now in use as part of Ohio’s state report card and teacher evaluation systems will be Dr. Sarah Cecire’s topic for a Bluffton University colloquium at 4 p.m. on Friday, February 14.
Cecire, a professor of education at Bluffton, will address “Value Added: What Is It, and How Can It Be Used to Improve Schools?” in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public.
She holds a doctorate in ministry, and a master’s degree in religion, but those weren’t the parts of her education that Dr. Elizabeth Soto Albrecht shared Feb. 4 at Bluffton University.
Instead, the moderator of Mennonite Church USA went back to elementary school in Chicago—where her family had moved from Puerto Rico—and what she called a “stolen” educational foundation.
Dr. J. Denny Weaver, professor emeritus of religion at Bluffton University, will address his 2013 book, “The Nonviolent God,” in two settings Tuesday, Feb. 11, on the Bluffton campus.
“Race, Ethnicity and the Nonviolent God” is Weaver’s title for a Bluffton forum at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall. He will then present a program on his book in the Musselman Library Reading Room, beginning with a reception at 3:45 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
