Education, Teacher Unions and US-China Relations - 9.27.2020

Paul Peterson

Topic: Why we should open in-person schools now
Bio: Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard.

Paul Peterson Q&A

Aaron Tang

Topic: Inherent Conflicts for Teacher Unions between Employment Security and Student Education
Bio: Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law

Aaron Tang and Laura Juran Q&A

Steve Seleznow

Topic: Collective Bargaining and Firing Bad Teachers
Bio: President and CEO of Arizona Community Foundation

Steve Seleznow and Laura Juran Q&A

Laura Juran

Topic: How Teachers Unions are Advancing the Public Interest
Bio: Chief Counsel and Associate Executive Director at California Teachers Association

Aaron Tang and Laura Juran Q&A

Graham Allison

Topic: Thucydides Trap with China and How to Avoid It
Bio: Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School
Reading Assignment: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap, Read Chapter 6 (What Xi’s China Wants)

Graham Allison and Daniel Yergin Q&A

Robert D. Kaplan

Topic: The Ideology Delusion
Bio: Author of The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the 21st Century
Reading Assignment: Foreign Affairs (9/4/20) The Ideology Delusion

Dan Yergin

Topic: US-Chinese Competition in World Energy Markets
Bio: Vice Chairman IHS Markit
Reading Assignment: Read the Conclusion for The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations which was released This Week!

Dan Yergin, Robert D. Kaplan, and Graham Allison Q&A

Full Q&A Session for Speakers