1999 Events

12/17/1999: Connecting Academic Standards with Service-Learning, with Ken Holdsman, Director of Service-Learning, School District of Philadelphia. (Forum Brief)
12/6/1999 - 12/7/1999: High School Reform Efforts in Chicago, with visits to a New American High Schools and an Education-to-Careers school. (Trip Report)
11/23/1999: School to Work Meeting (Discussion Meeting)
11/19/1999: ESEA Reauthorization: Where Are We on the Process? (Forum Brief)
11/12/1999: A Close Up View of School Reform: Chicago, Seattle and Philadelphia, with John Merrow. (Forum Brief)
11/5/1999: Reforms and Challenges in Teacher Education Programs: Perspective of Policy Makers, College Presidents, and Practitioners, with Patricia Maloney, Assistant Director, Center for Policy Analysis, ACE, Mary Futrell, Dean, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University (GWU), and Gary Galluzzo, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. (Forum Brief)
10/22/1999: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" Alfie Kohn, author. (Forum Brief)
10/15/1999: The Content of Teacher Licensing Examinations, Patte Barth and Ruth Mitchell, The Education Trust. (Forum Brief)
9/28/1999: High Schools for the Millenium - Meeting 3 (Discussion Group Meeting)
9/23/1999: Preparing Young People for Work and Education. A roundtable co-sponsored by the National Center for Research on Vocational Education, the Office for Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education and the American Youth Policy Forum. Its purpose is to review a number of recently released research papers on issues affecting preparation of youth for education and employment. (Meeting)
9/17/1999: New American Schools: Getting Better By Design. A Preview of the Annenberg and Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) Comprehensive School Reform Video Series. (Forum Brief)
9/16/1999: What Works in Youth Employment and Training: A Discussion With the 1999 PEPNet Awardees. (Forum Brief)
8/11/1999: Dinner Series (Seminar V): Final Seminar in Series on Programs Serving At-Risk and Out-of-School Youth. (Seminar V)
7/30/1999: Standards-Based Reform and Accountability: Analysis of Two States — North Carolina and Texas, with John Barth, National Education Goals Panel and David Grissmer, RAND. (Forum Brief)
7/15/1999: School to Work Meeting. (Discussion Meeting)
7/14/1999: Youth Policy Salon on Education Reform and Service Learning. (Policy Salon Discussion)
7/9/1999: Contextual Learning: What is it? with representatives of CORD. (Forum Brief)
7/7/1999: Youth Policy Salon on Workforce Development and School to Work. (Policy Salon Discussion)
6/25/1999: Immigrant Adolescents with Limited Schooling and Literacy: Developing Responsive Programs, with Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics, JoAnn Crandall and Ann Jaramillo, Project WE TEACH, and Holly Stein, Prince Georges County Public Schools. (Forum Brief)
6/15/1999: Dinner discussion with Superindendent of Fairfax County Schools, Dr. Daniel Domenech. (Dinner Discussion)
6/14/1999: MORE Things DO Make a Difference For Youth, with Donna Walker James, American Youth Policy Forum, Joanne Jastrzab, Abt Associates, Sherry Kaiman, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and Charles Barone, Office of Representative George Miller. (Forum Brief)
6/11/1999: A Youth Development Approach to Services for Young People: The Work of the Family and Youth Services Bureau. (Forum Brief)
6/4/1999: What Next After the School to Work Opportunities Act Sunsets? with Hilary Pennington and Richard Kazis, Jobs for the Future. (Forum Brief)
5/17/1999: Visit to the District of Columbia Charter Schools. (Trip Report)
5/14/1999: A Review of Early Intervention Programs to Promote Access to Postsecondary Education, with Larry Gladieux, The College Board. (Forum Brief)
5/6/1999 - 5/7/1999: Secondary School Reform in New York City. (Trip Report)
4/30/1999: Integrated Career Preparation System, with Arnold Packer. (Forum Brief)
4/28/1999: Dinner Series (Seminar IV): Perspectives of Young People on Youth Employment and Training ProgramsServing At-Risk and Out-of-School Youth, with Ed DeJesus, Youth Development and Research Fund and Young People. (Dinner Seminar IV)
4/27/1999: High Schools for the Millenium - Meeting 2. (Discussion Group Meeting)
4/12/1999: The Reauthorization of ESEA Title I: Key Findings From The Civil Rights Project, with James McPartland of Johns Hopkins University, David Grissmer of RAND, and Gary Orfield of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. (Forum Brief)
4/8/1999 - 4/9/1999: West Virginia — Jobs Through Education. An opportunity to meet with the Governor and State legislators, learn about the state's new Jobs Through Education legislation and to visit a "High School That Works" in Randolph County. (Trip Report)
3/26/1999: Order in the Classroom — Violence, Discipline and Student Achievement, with Paul Barton, Director of the ETS Policy Information Center. (Forum Brief)
3/24/1999: Dinner Series (Seminar III): Perspectives from "Research and Evlauation: Improving the Quality and Efficacy of Programs Serving At-Risk and Out-of-School Youth," with speakers: JoAnn Jastrzab, Senior Research Associate, Abt Associates, Inc.; Antonio Perez, Executive Director, Milwaukee Community Service Corps; and Donna Walker James, Senior Policy Associate, American Youth Policy Forum. (Dinner Seminar III)
3/18/1999 - 3/19/1999: Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan — Non-Traditional Partnerships for Workforce Development. (Trip Report)
3/12/1999: Demanding Accountability for Better Schools: What Parents, Teachers and Taxpayers Want to Know, with Andy Plattner from A Plus Communications. (Forum Brief)
3/10/1999: High Schools for the Millenium - Meeting 1. (Discussion Group Meeting)
3/5/1999: Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future, a compelling analysis of government by initiative and its effects on California, with author Peter Schrag. (Forum Brief)
2/24/1999: Dinner Series (Seminar II): Perspectives of Administrators of Programs Serving At-Risk and Out-of-School Youth, with speakers: Taylor Frome, Executive Director, YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School; Diane Cottman, Deputy Director, Planning and Development; and Lorenzo Harrison, past Deputy Executive Director/Vice President of STRIVE, East Harlem, and currently Administrator for Youth Programs, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. (Dinner Seminar II)
2/19/1999: The New Economy, with Robert Atkinson, Progressive Policy Institute. (Forum Brief)
2/12/1999: Employers Talk About Building a School to Work System: Voices from the Field, with Joan Wills, Director, Center for Workforce Development, Institute for Educational Leadership. (Forum Brief)
2/5/1999: Community Schools and After-School Programs, with Martin Blank and Atelia Melaville, Institute for Educational Leadership. (Forum Brief)
1/29/1999: Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century: Residential Schools for At-Risk Children and Youth, with Heidi Goldsmith, Executive Director, International Center for Residential Education; Joseph Devlin, Head of Girard College, PA; Frank Frame, Scotland School for Veterans' Children; and Edward Gotgard, Boston University Residential Charter School. (Forum Brief)
1/29/1999: Bergen County Technical Schools' Career Academies, Hackensack, NJ. (Trip Report)
1/27/1999: Dinner Series (Seminar I): The first of a series of dinners and discussions on Programs Serving At-Risk and Out-of-School Youth. Speakers: Alan Zuckerman, National Youth Employment Coalition and Elton Jolly, former president of Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America. (Dinner Seminar I)
1/21/1999: Dinner and discussion, with Hon. Raymond Bramucci, Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, on the new Workforce Investment Act. (Dinner)
1/8/1999: The El Paso Collaborative for Academic Excellence: Is It Possible to Turn Big City School Systems Around? with Anne T. Henderson, Institute for Education and Social Policy. (Forum Brief)