Meeting The Challenge of Teaching All Students to Be Focus of Acer Colloquium At UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Gloria Ladson-Billings, author of the book “The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children,” will speak at the University at Buffalo on Thursday, Sept. 25, at the annual Charlotte C. Acer Colloquium on Urban Education.

Her public lecture, “Can I Ask You a Hard Question? Meeting the Challenge of Teaching All Students,” will take place at 4 p.m. in the Center for Tomorrow on the North (Amherst) Campus. It will be followed by a reception.

The colloquium, sponsored by the UB Graduate School of Education, is funded by an endowment from alumnus Charlotte C. Acer.

Ladson-Billings began her research on successful teachers of African-American students as a National Academy of Education Spencer Post-doctoral Fellow. She has won awards from the American Educational Research Association and the National Association of Multicultural Education.