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

This work expands on the ideas and themes discussed in the first two volumes in this series on education policy: The first book -- Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement -- examines the importance of teacher quality. Years of research have repeatedly confirmed what...

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Corporate Author Milken National Education Conference Washington, D.C.
Other Authors Solmon, Lewis C. (Editor), Agam, Kimberly Firetag (Editor), Priagula, Citadelle (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP-Information Age Publishing Inc., 2006.
SeriesThe Milken Family Foundation series on education policy
Subjects
School improvement programs > United States > Congresses.
Educational change > United States > Congresses.
Educational planning > United States > Congresses.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Educational systems and structures.
Educational strategies and policy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918115994
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-563-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xviii, 283 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 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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