Julia Weber
Staff writer
At 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater, Ian Rowe, a senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education at Brookings Institution, will deliver the morning lecture.
Together, Rowe and Winthrop will discuss the current opportunities and challenges of youth education and development amid Chautauqua Lecture Series’ Week Four theme, “The Future of the American Experiment: A Week in Partnership with American Enterprise Institute and Brookings Institution.” The lecturers will bring their research to consider how youth development and education can be positioned to meet the country’s most pressing needs.
The lecture comes during a week-long partnership between Brookings and AEI, two leading public policy think tanks conducting major research, to discuss a selection of the country’s most impactful issues in order to construct a meaningful dialogue through which to address them.
At AEI, Rowe researches education and upward mobility, family formation and adoption. He brings his experiences as the cofounder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a network of International Baccalaureate high schools; the cofounder of the National Summer School Initiative, an organization providing summer school curricula and resources to school districts; and the chairman of the board of Spence-Chapin, a nonprofit adoption services organization.
Rowe is a senior visiting fellow at the Woodson Center and is a writer for the 1776 Unites Campaign.
Winthrop’s area of research at Brookings focuses on global education with specific attention to the skills young people need to live as constructive citizens. She leads the Brookings Global Task Force on AI in Education and coleads the Family Engagement in Education Network. She has been a member of other global education initiatives such as the G-20 Education Task force, Mastercard Foundation’s Youth Learning Advisory Committee, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on education, and she was an education adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Winthrop has also served as the chair of the U.N. Secretary General’s Global Education First Initiative’s Technical Advisory Group, where she helped to frame an education vision that focuses on access, quality and global citizenship.
