Edward B. Fiske, education correspondent, editor and author of a new study of school reform in the United States, “Smart Schools, Smart Kids,” will speak at a public forum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, at Wellman Commons, Bangor Theological Seminary, 300 Union St., Bangor.

Fiske was named education editor of the New York Times in 1974 and in 1983 produced an award-winning series on Japanese schools.

In 1990 he was the first Wolynsky-Joukowsky Fellow at Brown University and began writing the study, published by Simon and Schuster.

In 1991 he left the Times to become a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College and to concentrate on writing and research in education.

Fiske’s talk is free to the public and sponsored by the Bangor Education Foundation. Call 947-1633 for information.