Welcome to the History of Education Society
Annual Meeting
August draft of the 2010 Annual Conference Schedule.
HOTEL
RESERVATIONS--NOVEMBER 3-7, 2010
HES will meet at LeMeridien in Cambridge, MA, three blocks from the MIT
campus. To get the excellent HES rate of $99/night (plus 12.5% tax),
you must make your reservations by October 4, 2010.
For easy online reservations, go to www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/HES
To make reservations by phone, call 617-577-0200
The History of Education Society holds its annual meeting in the fall. The 2010 Annual Meeting will be in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the LeMeridien Hotel (20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA 02139) from November 4-7, 2010.
The development of the Annual Meeting program continues, and a draft of the program is now available on the History of Education website. Conference registration and hotel reservation information is also now available on the website.
Your colleagues’ work on special sessions for the 50th Anniversary Meeting is producing some outstanding sessions; Andrea Walton has spent a lot of time developing projects to celebrate our anniversary. In addition, we will have comments by Bernard Bailyn on his groundbreaking book, Education In the Forming of American Society, at a luncheon sponsored by Wheaton College, Massachusetts (with heartfelt thanks to Linda Eisenmann for securing this support) and organized by Barbara Beatty and Roberta Wollons. Bailyn’s work is also enjoying its 50th anniversary, and he will be commenting on the development of the book and his work with a dedicated group of historians of education in the 1950s. There will be a small, $5.00 fee for the lunch, as we want this to be a sit-down luncheon rather than the box lunches we have been able to enjoy in previous years.
I look forward to seeing you in Cambridge. I recently visited the hotel with Roberta Wollons and Barbara Beatty, and it is a fine facility; the session rooms are very comfortable. There is even a lovely garden accessible from the main sessions room floor; perhaps even better, there are many reasonably priced restaurants in the immediate area... and the Local Arrangements Committee co-chairs and I thought that the hotel restaurant’s clam chowder was outstanding. Good scholarship, good company, good food!
Finally, I want to thank Roberta Wollons and Barbara Beatty for their enthusiastic work as co-chairs of the Local Arrangements Committee. They have planned tours as well as mini-sessions on Boston educational history, and it is clear that Annual Meeting participants will find a wealth of resources as a result of their work.
Come to Cambridge!
Philo Hutcheson
History of Education Society 2010 Program Chair
Past Programs