The challenges of school reform : implementation, impact, and sustainability /

This book, The Challenges of School Reform: Impact, Implementation, and Sustainability, explores why reforms todate have failed to live up to expectations, and it discusses promising practices and strategies for sustaining increased student achievement. This work expands on the ideas and themes disc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Milken National Education Conference Washington, D.C.
Otros Autores: Solmon, Lewis C., Agam, Kimberly Firetag, Priagula, Citadelle
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Greenwich, Conn. : IAP-Information Age Pub., ©2006.
Colección:Milken Family Foundation series on education policy.
Temas:
School improvement programs > United States > Congresses.
Educational change > United States > Congresses.
Educational planning > United States > Congresses.
Enseignement > Réforme > États-Unis > Congrès.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Educational change
Educational planning
School improvement programs
United States
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Lewis C. Solmon, Kimberly Firetag Agam, and Citadelle Priagula
  • The challenges of school reform
  • The challenges of school reform: implementation, impact and sustainability / Lowell Milken, Anthony Amato, Congressman Chaka Fattah, Jennifer A. Marshall, Thomas W. Payzant, Ray Simon, and Paul G. Vallas
  • Presentation by Congressman Ralph Regula
  • No child left behind (NCLB) presentation by Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education, United States Department of Education
  • Meeting the requirements of no child left behind / Lewis C. Solmon, Antonia Cortese, David P. Driscoll, Nina Shokaraii Rees, and Andrew Rotherham
  • Panel contributions / Nina Shokaraii Rees, and Andrew Rotherham
  • Panel contributions
  • NCLB: its problems, its promise / Antonia Cortese
  • Remarks before the Midwest Equity Assistance Center / Nina Shokaraii Rees
  • Hopes and hazards: no child left behind and low-performing public schools / Andrew Rotherham
  • Teacher quality
  • The teacher advancement program / Tamara W. Schiff
  • Presentation by Senator Mary Landrieu
  • Intersection of performance pay and professional development / Kristan Van Hook, T. Kenneth James, Cecil J. Picard, Alice Seagren, Lewis C. Solmon, and J. Todd White
  • Panel contributions
  • Encouraging teachers to invest paying off for Louisiana / Cecil J. Picard
  • Should we pay and train teachers differently? / Alice Seagren and Ken Wolf
  • Teacher quality key for school reform / Lowell Milken and Lewis C. Solmon
  • Framing the future: pre-K through higher education
  • Early childhood: the proper path for the future / Stephen Goldsmith, Libby Doggett, Ron Haskins, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Dennis Vicars, and Elanna Yalow
  • Shaping K-12 education, presentation by Governor Tim Pawlenty
  • Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act / J. Ted Sanders, Guilbert C. Hentschke, Sally L. Stroup, Ben Wildavsky, Susan Tave Zelman
  • Panel contributions
  • Closing achievement gaps / Ron Haskins and Cecilia Rouse
  • Ohio's approach to high quality teaching / Susan Tave Zelman
  • Conference presenters' bios.

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