2000 Events

12/8/2000: Creating Accessible Technologies — Practical Ways to Enable Youth to Reach Their Potential and to Overcome Barriers Faced in Employment, Education and Daily Living, with Gregg Vanderhiden, The Trace Center. (Forum Brief)
12/4/2000 - 12/5/2000: A Look at Service-Learning in South Carolina, with visits to Spring Valley High School and Wren High School. (Trip Report)
12/1/2000: School-to-Work and Youth with Disabilities: State and Community Policies to Serve All Youth, with David Johnson, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, and representatives from the State of New Jersey and Linking Learning to Life, Burlington High School, VT. (Forum Brief)
11/29/2000: The Psychology and Education of African American Children and Youth, with Dr. Thomas A. Parham. (Breakfast Meeting)
11/20/2000: The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children and Limits Learning, with author Etta Kralovec. (Forum Brief)
11/17/2000: Academy of Information Technology: A New Career Academy Model, with representatives from CORD and the National Academy Foundation. (Forum Brief)
11/14/2000: A Dinner Discussion with David Hornbeck. (Dinner Meeting)
11/3/2000: Accessing the General Curriculum: Promoting a Universal Design for Learning, with David Rose, Principle Investigator, and Curriculum and Chuck Hitchcock, Project Director, National Center for Access to the General Curriculum; Lou Danielson, Director, Research to Practice Division, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education. (Forum Brief)
10/29/2000 - 10/31/2000: Community Schools and Partnerships to Improve Learning and Services for Youth, in conjunction with the Coalition for Community, Kansas City, MO. (Trip Report)
10/27/2000: National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, report of the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation. (Forum Brief)
10/26/2000 - 10/27/2000: New American High Schools and Reform Strategies in Houston, with visits to New American High School Michael DeBakey High School, Project GRAD and other sites. (Trip Report)
10/20/2000: Diploma Plus: Re-Engaging At-Risk Youth Through High Standards and Pathways to College, with Alex Hoffinger, Co-Director of Diploma Plust. (Forum Brief)
10/18/2000: Every Student a Citizen: Creating the Democratic Self, with Terry Pickeral, Project Director, Compact for Learning and Citizenship, Education Commission of the States; Shelley Berman, Superintendent, Hudson Public Schools, MA; John Mingler, Teacher, National Council of Social Studies. (Roundtable Discussion)
10/6/2000: Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams): A Multi-Intervention Approach In Urban Schools Shows Success, with Manpower Development Research Corporation and representatives from Newark, NJ. (Forum Brief)
9/22/2000: Youth Employment Programming that Works: A Discussion with the PEPNet 2000 Awardees, with Paul Masiarchin, NYEC Program Associate; Kate O'Sullivan, Director of PEPNet for NYEC; and Howard Knoll, Chair of the PEPNet Working Group. (Forum Brief)
9/20/2000: School-to-Work Sustainability Discussion Group, co-sponsored with the Center for Workforce Development (Institute for Education Leadership).
8/9/2000 - 8/11/2000: Alternative Education Programs for Youth, with visits to Eagle Rock School (Estes Park, CO), Service Conservation Corps, Rocky Mountain National Park and Denver, and meetings with the Superintendent, Thompson School District (a New American High School District). (Trip Report)
8/2/2000: Where's the Learning in Service-Learning — And Why Should There Be National Support for It? Moderator: Barbara Gomez, Learning in Deed. (Salon)
7/28/2000: Service-Learning in State Legislation (Part II): South Carolina's Efforts to Integrate Service-Learning into Schools and Communities, with Kathy Gibson Carter (Executive Director, Commission on National & Community Service), Dr. Janet Mason (University of South Carolina), and Jamaal Young. (Forum Brief)
7/27/2000: New Activity on the Education of Teachers, with Patricia Maloney, American Council on Education. (Salon)
7/21/2000: The BEST Way to Work with Youth: Building Exemplary Systems for Training Youth Workers: Lessons form a National Initiative, with Elaine Johnson (Director, National Training Institute for Community Youth Work), Deborah Craig (President, YouthNet of Greater Kansas City), Mo Barbosa (BEST Coordinator), and Mustafaa Madyun (Youth Challenge Director). (Forum Brief)
7/14/2000: Reducing Juvenile Crime, What Works — and What Doesn't, with Richard Mendel (Author) and Patrick Lawler (Youth Villages). (Forum Brief)
6/23/2000: Service-Learning in State Legislation: A State-Wide Citizenship Effort, with John Benson and Terry Pickeral. (Forum Brief)
6/1/2000 - 6/2/2000: New American High Schools, a visit to Saunders Trades and Technical High School, Yonkers, NY and Marine Academy of Science and Technology, Sandy Hook, NJ. (Trip Report)
5/5/2000: Special Education Research: Ideas that Work, with Russ Gersten, Tim Lewis and Ann Turnbull. (Forum Brief)
4/28/2000: Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Education, with Peggy Siegel, the Director of Business/Education Initiatives for the National Alliance of Business (NAB), Brenda Clark, Principal of Azalea Elementary School, Doug Smith, Principal of Osceola High School, Star Glock, Staffing Specialist at GTE, and Lisa Deprez, Six Sigma Expert Raytheon. (Forum Brief)
4/14/2000: Small Schools and Learning Communities: The Wave of the Future? with Trish McNeil, Assistant Secretary of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education; Kathleen Cotton, Research Associate, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory; Mike Klonsky, Director, Small Schools Workshop, University of Illinois at Chicago; Marty Strange, Policy Director, Rural School and Community Trust; and Iris Metts, Superintendent, Prince George's County Public Schools, Maryland. (Forum Brief)
4/7/2000: Oregon's Proficiency-Based Admissions Standards System (PASS) with David Conley, Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Management, College of Education, University of Oregon. (Forum Brief)
3/31/2000: After-School Programs in American Neighborhoods: A Golden Opportunity for Youth Development? co-sponsored by the Coalition of Community Schools and the DC Children and Youth Investment Corporation, with Reginald Clark of Clark and Associates; Carter J. Savage, Senior Director of Education Program Services; Michelle Hailey, Director of Education and the Arts, Boys & Girls Club; and Marty Blank, Director, Institute for Educational Leadership. (Forum Brief)
3/28/2000: Intermediary Organizations: How Does Federal Policy Affect Their Success in Developing Quality Local Education and Workforce Development Systems? with Richard Kazis, Vice-President, Jobs for the Future; Steve Trippe, Executive Director, New Ways to Work. (Roundtable Discussion)
3/17/2000: National Guard — Free State Youth ChalleNGe Program, Aberdeen, MD. (Trip Report)
3/13/2000: Youth Engaged in Communities Through School: A Perspective From One National Service-Learning Leader School (Forum Brief)
3/10/2000: Deepening Partnerships Between School and Community, with Martin J. Blank, Staff Director of the Coalition for Community Schools, Mary Freeland, Executive Director of Jacksonville Children's Commission, Phil Gonring, Program Officer at the Rose Community Foundation, and Shirley Farnsworth, Director of Community Education for the Denver Public Schools. (Forum Brief)
3/6/2000: Denmark Minister of Education, Margrethe Vestager, cosponsored with the National Center on Education and the Economy. (Lunch Discussion)
3/3/2000: Mobilizing Community Support for Improved Student Achievement, with Wendy Puriefoy, President, Public Education Network and network members Sonia Louden-Walker, Former Executive Director, Partners in Public Education (PIPE), Memphis, TN; and M. Anthony Habit, President, Wake Education Partnership, Raleigh, NC. (Forum Brief)
3/2/2000: Cosponsored with DC Voices: Strategies for Mobilizing Community Support for Standards-Based School Reform, with Wendy Puriefoy, President Public Education Network and network representatives Sonia Louden-Walker former Executive Director, Partners in Public Education (PIPE), Memphis TN; and M. Anthony Habit, President, Wake Education Partnership Raleigh, NC. (Seminar)
3/1/2000: Community Schools and Beacon Models in New York City. (Trip Report)
2/25/2000: Raising the Bar: The Promise of Standards-Based Education Reform, with Marc Tucker, President, National Center on Education and the Economy, and Patricia Harvey, Superintendent of St. Paul, MN speaking on using the New Standards Curriculum to boost student achievement. (Forum Brief)
2/18/2000: Use of TANF Funds for After-School and Community School Programming, with The Finance Project and local practitioners. (Forum Brief)
2/4/2000: Increasing Student Achievement Through the Arts, with James S. Catterall, Professor of Education, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and Richard Deasy, Director, Arts Education Partnership, Council of Chief State School Officers. (Forum Brief)
1/28/2000: Youth Court: A National Youth Justice Movement, with moderator Scott Peterson, Program Manager, OJJDP, U.S. Department of Justice, and panelists: Tracy Godwin, Director, National Youth Court Center; John Grebert, Chief of Police, Colonie, New York; Jeffrey Butts, The Urban Institute; John J. Wilson, Deputy Administrator, OJJDP, U.S. Dept. of Justice; and a youth representative from the Rockville, Maryland Youth Court. (Forum Brief)
1/21/2000: Do Career Academies Work? with James Kemple and Jason Snipes, Manpower Development Research Corporation. (Forum Brief)
1/14/2000: Programs for Neighborhood Youth, Including YouthBuild, Latin American Youth Center, Washington, DC. (Trip Report)
1/11/2000: Teacher Credentialing Solutions — Attracting Talented People into the Teaching Profession, with Anne Shelton Mayes, Open University, United Kingdom. (Special Briefing)
1/7/2000: The Impact of High Stakes Testing Policies On Minority and Disadvantaged Students: Legal and Policy Implications of New Research, with Lauren Resnick, Director, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh; Linda McNeil, Director, Center for Education at Rice University; and Gary Natriello, Professor of Education, Columbia University; and Christopher Edley and Gary Orfield, Co-directors of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, and Jay Heubert, Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. (Forum Brief)