2005-2006 : Failing Schools: Replace Them or Overhaul Them?
New York City goes for new schools
Speaker: Michele Cahill, Senior Counselor for Education Policy,
New York City Department of Education
Respondents: Hosanna Mahaley Johnson, Chief of Staff to CPS CEO Arne Duncan
Mildred Wiley, Senior Director of Community Building Special Initiatives, Bethel New Life
Chattanooga zeroes in on worst schools
Speaker: Dan Challener, President, Public Education Foundation of Chattanooga
Respondent: Timothy Knowles, Executive Director, Center for Urban School Improvement, University of Chicago
School replication: What matters most?
Speakers: John Elwell, President, Replications, Inc., New York City;
Darryl Cobb, Chief Learning Officer, KIPP Charter Schools
2004
School choice can enhance equity
Speaker: Paul T. Hill, Director, Center for Re-Inventing Public Education at the University of Washington
Respondent: Laura Rodriguez, Superintendent, Region 2, East Bronx, New York City Public Schools
After NCLB: What should a good federal law look like?
Speaker: Richard Elmore,
Gregory Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Respondent: William L. Taylor, Professor, Georgetown University; Vice-Chair, Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights
Repairing the teacher pipeline
Speaker: Barnett Berry, President, Southeast Center for Teaching Respondent: Dianne Ashby, Dean, Illinois State University College of Education
2003
No Child Left Behind: Offering real choice to every Chicago student
Speaker: Pedro Noguera, Judith K. Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools, Harvard University Gradaute School of Education
Respondents: Kothyn Alexander, Co-Principal, Big Picture Williams High School; Jose Rico, School Facilitator, University of Ililnois at Chicago Small Schools Workshop
New paradigms in educational leadership
Speakers: Warren Simmons,
Executive Director, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University; a panel of Chicago leaders
Transforming CHA communities: Is public education the key to success?
Speakers: Gary Orfield, Professor, Harvard University; Warren Chapman, President, Bank One Foundation; Toni Preckwinkle, Alderman, Chicago 4th Ward
2002
What will Illinois' next governor do for public education?
Speakers: Paul Green, Director, Roosevelt University School of Policy Studies; James Nowlan, Senior Fellow, University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs
How can we ensure that our neediest students get teachers of the highest quality?
Speakers: Kati Haycock, Director of the Education Trust; Arne Duncan, CEO, Chicago Public Schools
High school redesign: This time, do we mean it?
Speakers: Tom Vander Ark, Executive Director for Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Terry Mazany, President and CEO, Chicago Community Trust; Barbara Eason-Watkins, Chief Education Officer, Chicago Public Schools; Betty Despenza-Green,
Director of the National High School Initiative, Small Schools Workshop
2001
Putting teacher quality first: Cincinnati's experiment
Speakers: Allan Odden, Professor and Co-director, Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Wisconsin; Kathleen T. Ware, Cincinnati Public Schools
Closing the achievement gap: The Evanston effort
Speakers: Donald M. Stewart, President and CEO, Chicago Community Trust; Allan Alson, Superintendent, Evanston Township High School
The digital divide: New approaches in Union City
Speakers: Louis Gomez, Director, Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools; Fred Carrigg, Director, Academic Programs, Union City, N.J. Public Schools
2000
Leadership for today's schools: How two superintendents make the grade
Speakers: Barbara Byrd-Bennett, CEO, Cleveland School District; Spencer Korti, Superintendent, Milwaukee Public Schools
Beyond tests: What can we learn from the British independent inspection system?
Speakers: Stephen Lake, Director of Full Circle, a private inspection contractor in England; Kate Nolan, Director of Rethinking Accountability Project, The Annenberg Institute
A new high school culture: How do we get there?
Speakers: Harvey "Smokey" Daniels, The Center for City Schools, National-Louis University; George H. Wood, Principal, Federal Hocking High School (Ohio)
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