The Brodie Family Lectureship
The Brodie Family Lectureship
The Brodie Family Lectureship
The Brodie Family Lectureship was established in 1997 by Theodore H. Brodie of the Class of 1952 and an Overseer of the College from 1983 to 1995. 
The income from this fund is designated to support an annual lecture at the College by a speaker of note in the field of education who would deliver a message on the subjects of problems and practices of teaching and learning. Mr. Brodie is chief executive officer of New England Insulation in Canton, Massachusetts.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009:
"Rising to Meet Obama's Challenge: What the Crisis in Educational Attainment Means for Urban High Schools"
7:00 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Melissa Roderick Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor
School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Melissa Roderick is a co-director at the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. She currently serves as a special advisor to the Chief Executive Office of the Chicago Public Schools for Planning and Development where she previously served as director. Roderick is an expert in urban school reform, high-stakes testing and minority adolescent development. Her work has focused attention on the transition to high school as a critical point in students' school careers. She has conducted research on school dropout, grade retention and the effects of summer programs.
Professor Roderick is the lead principal investigator of a multi-method evaluation of the impact of Chicago's efforts to end social promotion, "The Effects of the Chicago Public School's Promotion Policy and Summer Bridge Initiative on Student Achievement and Opportunity to Learn," funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Spencer Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation. Her new research is examining the determinants of successful transition to post-secondary among Chicago students.
