1995 Events

11/16/1995 - 11/17/1995: School-to-Work Transition and Education Reform under the Kentucky Education Reform Act, Louisville, KY. (Trip Report)
10/19/1995 - 10/20/1995: District-Wide School-to-Work System and School Choice in Milwaukee, WI. (Trip Report)
10/16/1995: Basic Research: Investing In America's Economic Future, with David N. Schramm, Professor of Physical Sciences, University of Chicago and Chair, Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Research Council. (Forum Brief)
10/6/1995: Strategies and Successes In School Dropout Prevention, with Jay Smink, Executive Director, National Dropout Prevention Center, Clemson University. (Forum Brief)
9/8/1995: What Do We Know About Young Adult Literacy and What Are We Doing About It? with Andrew Hartman, Director, National Institute for Literacy, and Irwin Kirsch, Educational Testing Service. (Forum Brief)
7/21/1995: Americorps: A First-Year Status Report by Independent Evaluators, with Tom Smith, Public/Private Ventures. (Forum Brief)
7/7/1995: Greater Southeast Health Care System School-to-Work Transition Project, Washington, D.C. (Trip Report)
6/8/1995 - 6/9/1995: New Visions for School and Community, in The Bronx and Brooklyn, New York, programs that bring together elementary, middle and high schools with employers, offer career awareness, community service and work-site learning tied to academic credits for young people and jobs and training for young adults. (Trip Report)
6/2/1995: Myths about International Test Score Comparisons, with Iris Rotberg, Program Director for Research, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation. (Forum Brief)
5/19/1995: Center for Employment Training (CET) and YouthBuild in Baltimore, MD. (Trip Report)
4/21/1995: "The Forgotten Half" of Employment Training Policy: The Demand Side, with Carolyn Green, Baltimore Office of the Center for Employment Training, San Jose, California; Marjorie Turner, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Basil Whiting, Director of Work-Plus, Public/Private Ventures; Tom Smith, Public/Private Ventures. (Forum Brief)
4/10/1995: Legislative Principles for Career-Related Education and Training: What Does Research Support? with David Stern, Phyllis Hudecki, Allen Phelps and Norton Grubb, National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California at Berkeley. (Forum Brief)
3/23/1995 - 3/24/1995: Reforms in Urban Education, Youth Development, Community Service and School-to-Career Transition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including visits to the Fitness and Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Academies; Health Tech 2000; the YouthBuild Program; a West Philadelphia Partnership Improvement Corporation community service site, Shaw Middle School; and meeting with Superintendent of Schools David Hornbeck. (Trip Report)
2/24/1995: Academic Performance and the Changing American Family, with David W. Grissmer, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Mark Berends and Stephanie Williamson, RAND. (Forum Brief)
1/23/1995: Promising Practices: A Study of Ten School-to-Career Programs, with Hilary Pennington, Richard Kazis and Hilary Kopp of Jobs for the Future; Patricia Clark, Director, Health and Bioscience Academy, Oakland, CA; Tom Panzarella, Cook Specialty, Green Lane, PA; and a student from ProTech, Boston, MA. (Forum Brief)
1/20/1995: Integrating Youth Employment and Youth Development: Implications for Job Training Consolidation and Youth Policy Reform, with Erik Payne Butler, Executive Director, Bay State Skills Corporation, Boston, MA; Joan Wills, Director, Center for Workforce Development, Institute for Educational Leadership; Russell Owens, Director of Governmental Relations, OIC's of America. (Forum Brief)