Jeb Bush Coming to Harvard This Fall

CAMBRIDGE, MA — As Donald Trump battles toward the presidency, former challenger Jeb Bush is coming to Harvard.

The former Florida governor joins the Program on Education Policy and Governance, at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government as a visiting fellow for the fall 2016 term.

He will also deliver the school's 2016 Godkin Lecture on September 29, an annual lecture hosted by the Kennedy School in collaboration with the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum since 1903.

According to the Kennedy School, "In his talk, Bush will discuss the lack of economic and social mobility in the United States and his ideas for addressing those challenges."

Bush will visit the school throughout the fall term, serving as guest instructor and presenter, including lecturing in the course “The Political Economy of the School,” co-taught with the current State Superintendent of Education for the state of Louisiana, John White.

He will additionally participate in the Program on Education Policy and Governance's fall colloquia series on education policy and research, and in the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Forum on October 13.

The Askwith Forum is a yearly series of public lectures whose topics are initiated by faculty, students, and alumni, and aim to address the highest-priority challenges facing education.

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