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Improving on No Child Left Behind: Recommendations for a New President and Congress
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The Century Foundation
10/15/2008
12:00-1:30 pm
The National Press Club, 529 Fourteenth Street, NW, at F Street, Washington D.C.
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View John Yinger's PowerPoint Presentation.
View Amy Stuart Wells' PowerPoint Presentation.
View Lauren Resnick's PowerPoint Presentation.
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The election of a new president and Congress will provide a new set of hands to fix the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). What should be done about funding levels? How can the standards, testing, and accountability provisions be improved? How can the promise of allowing students in low performing schools to move to better ones be realized? To answer these questions and others, The Century Foundation has released a new book, Improving on No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track and sponsored a forum with the volume’s leading authors.
The book is already receiving critical acclaim. Diane Ravitch calls Improving on No Child Left Behind “the best of the books on this topic,” while Randi Weingarten says the essays could “rebuild teacher interest and faith in standards-based reform.” Marshall Smith says the volume “provides two powerful new policy alternatives for a debate hitherto barren of interesting ideas,” and John Brittain lauds the book’s “clarion call” for greater public school choice for low income and minority students.
The Event Featured:
- Richard D. Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
- Lauren Resnick, Professor of Psychology and Director, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
- Amy Stuart Wells, Professor of Sociology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
- John M. Yinger, Trustee Professor of Public Administration and Economics, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
- Claudio Sanchez, Education Reporter, National Public Radio (Moderator)
Amy Stuart Wells Feature Video
Lauren Resnick Feature Video
John Yinger
Feature Video
Discussion Video
Q&A Video
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