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Rudy Crew

Rudy Crew

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ormer Superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools and former Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools,

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Former Superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools and former Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools, Dr. Rudy Crew has made it his mission to overhaul and strengthen the educational system in America. From the podium, he draws on his 25 years as a professional educator to galvanize teachers and students to reach for the stars—and grasp them.

A stern but caring taskmaster, Crew’s guiding principle has always been to provide the means by which students of all backgrounds can achieve high standards – a principle that informs each of his lectures. To this end, in the course of his rich and varied career, Crew has initiated dozens of reforms, including the adoption of curriculum standards for all schools, the elimination of tenure for principals, and school-based budgeting. For his efforts, he has been honored with numerous awards, including the NAACP Educational Leadership Award, the Arthur Ashe Leadership Award, and the Association of California School Administrators Administrator of the Year Award.

As author of Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools, Crew calls on America to meet the challenges of an undereducated and undermotivated workforce increasingly unable to compete with the ambitions of countries such as China and India. A firm believer that the solution lies not in the boardroom, but in the classrooms of our local public schools, he mandates that we need a national commitment to establishing standards of excellence and equity in all our public schools to keep our nation thriving.

On the stage—as in the classroom—Crew’s genuine love of teaching makes him an extraordinarily popular figure. He has long believed in passing onto others the opportunities that have been afforded him throughout his childhood and his adult life, for which he credits a father who encouraged him to excel. As the first male in his family to go to college, and as one of the first black students to integrate his undergraduate alma mater, Babson College, Crew is also a passionate and engaging speaker on the importance of education among the poor, and of diversity in the educational system.

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The Education Conversation We Must Have: Schooling, Globalization, & Urban America

Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools

Reaching for the Stars: Setting & Achieving Higher Standards for America’s Youth

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Rudy Crew- Changing the Impossible
Rudy Crew- What Guides a Leader

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