1998 Events

12/11/1998: A Revolution in School District Governance: The Chicago Experience, with Dorothy Shipps, Director, Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Chicago. (Forum Brief)
12/4/1998: Character Education Makes a Difference: Reinvigorating the Work of Schools, with Esther Schaeffer, Executive Director, Character Education partnership; Karen Bohlin, Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character; Lynn Lisy-Macan, Principal of Brookside Elementary School, Binghamton, NY; and Timothy Smith, Principal of Mound Fort Middle School, Ogden UT. (Forum Brief)
11/20/1998: What You Always Wanted to Know About the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, with James A. Kelly, President and Chief Executive Officer, NBPTS. (Forum Brief)
11/9/1998 - 11/10/1998: Sussex Technical High School in Georgetown, Delaware/The Transformation of an Area Vocational School into a Comprehensive Full-Time Technical High School to gain in-depth knowledge of a school that is: (1) implementing School-to-Work, (2) recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a New American High School and a National School of Excellence, and (3) a member of the Southern Regional Education Boards' High Schools That Work initiative. (Trip Report)
11/6/1998: Making Academics Count: Encouraging Employers to Request School Records of Prospective Employees, with Elizabeth Pauly and Aime Rogstad Guidera, National Alliance of Business; Dana Egrescky, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce; Doug Hill, Delaware Business, Industry, Education Alliance; and Kathy Walsh, IBM. (Forum Brief)
10/30/1998: Creating New Small Schools: Do They Work? Can We Afford Them? Can They Drive Systemic Change? with Ann Henderson, Center for Law and Education and representatives of New York City's small school reform movement. (Forum Brief)
10/23/1998: The Educational and Labor Market Performance of GED Recepients, with David Bosel, Senior Research Associate, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education and Nabeel Alsalam, Congressional Budget Office. (Forum Brief)
10/16/1998: Is the American High School Obsolete?: A University President's Vision of a New Future for High Schools, with Leon Botstein, President, Bard College. (Forum Brief)
9/25/1998: Site Visit to Baltimore, Maryland: Learning in Action: Two Innovative Employment Training and Youth Development Programs, site visits to Baltimore City Fire Cadet Program and Fresh Start, a program within The Living Classrooms. (Trip Report)
9/10/1998: What Works in Youth Employment and Training: A Discussion with the 1998 PEPNet Awardees, with staff of the National Youth Employment Coalition. (Forum Brief)
6/19/1998: Implementing School-to-Work: Creating Multiple Pathways to College and Work for All Youth — Emerging Lessons from Pioneering Reforms and a Longitudinal Evaluation, with James Kemple, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. (Forum Brief)
6/17/1998: Best Practices Serving Job Corps: The National "Alpha Award" Winners, with staff of the National Job Corps Coalition and 1998 Alpha Award Winners. (Forum Brief)
6/12/1998: Safe Passage: Making it Through Adolescence in a Risky Society, with Joy Dryfoos, independent researcher and writer; and Rosa Agosta, Director, Technical Assistance Center, Children's Aid Society of New York City. (Forum Brief)
5/22/1998: The Growing Role of Urban Four-Year Universities in Service-Learning, School Reform, School-to-Work and Community Change, with Dr. Ira Harkavay, Director, Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania. (Forum Brief)
4/16/1998 - 4/17/1998: Urban Education Reform: The Boston Experience, with visits to Jeremiah Burke High School, Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Carney Hospital, Bunker Hill Community College and University School at Action for Boston Community Development, Inc. (Trip Report)
3/27/1998: Should We Build an Internationally Benchmarked System of Standards and Performance Assessments? with Marc Tucker, President, National Center on Education and the Economy, and Lauren Resnick, Director, Learning and Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. (Forum Brief)
3/20/1998: Revisiting Charter Schools: A Growing Component of Public Education, with Jeanne Allen, President, Center for Education Reform; Bernice Lever, Chief Executive Officer, Arizona CALL-A-TEEN; and Peggy Kerns, Director, Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, U.S. Department of Education. (Forum Brief)
3/19/1998: The Serious and Violent Juvenile Offender: What are the Risk Factors and Successful Interventions? with David P. Farrington, Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, England; Rolf Loeber, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; and Nancy G. Guerra, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Co-sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice). (Forum Brief)
3/12/1998: A Discussion with Dr. Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent, Boston Public Schools: System-Wide School Reform: A National and Local Perspective. (Dinner Meeting)
3/6/1998: The Role of School Choice in Increasing Access to Quality Education, with Clint Bolick, Vice President and Director of Litigation, Institute for Justice and Ginny Walden, Community Outreach Coordinator, FOCUS (Friends of Choice in Urban Schools). (Forum Brief)
2/27/1998: The Retention and High Stakes Testing: Will They Result in Improvements in Urban Student Achievement? with Mitchell Chester, Executive Director of Accountability and Assessment for the School District of Philadelphia; Stephanie Robinson, Principal Partner, The Education Trust; Richard Wenning, Director of Educational Accountability, District of Columbia Public Schools; and Dennis Doyle, education consultant and writer. (Forum Brief)
2/20/1998: Federal Juvenile Justice Programming and Policy: An Overview, with Shay Bilchik, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice. (Forum Brief)
2/6/1998: The Juvenile Justice System: The Best Way to Deal with Juvenile Crime, Delinquency and Prevention, with Edward J. Loughran, Executive Director, Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) and Peter Hardie, Executive Director, Roxbury YouthWorks. (Forum Brief)
1/30/1998: Community Change for Youth Development: Lessons from a Two-Year Pilot, with Bernadine Watson, Vice President, Public/Private Ventures and CCYD project director; Otis Johnson, Executive Director, Youth Futures Authority, Savannah, Georgia; James Mills, Executive Director, Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County (St. Petersburg); and Dennis Campa, former Director, Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department. (Forum Brief)
1/16/1998: High Schools That Work: Critical Insights on School Reform, with Gene Bottoms, Director, Southern Regional Educational Board, State Vocational Education Consortium. (Forum Brief)