No Child Left Behind, Federal Education Policy
Briefs
- 09/21/2007
- Exemplary CTE Districts and Programs with Gary Hoachlander, Executive Director, ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career, Michael Hanlon, Founder, Health Careers Academy at Palmdale High School, California, Michael Owens, Associate Secretary, Adult Education and Workforce Development, Delaware Department of Education, Patrick Savini, Superintendent, Sussex Technical School District, Delaware (Forum Brief)
- 07/20/2007
- The Role of Career and Technical Education in High School Reform: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Education through CTE with Dr. Laurel Adler, Superintendent, East San Gabriel Regional Occupational Program, West Codiva, CA and Mark Whitlock, CEO, Central Education Center, Coweta County, GA (Forum Brief and webcast)
- 05/10/2007
- The Role of Career and Technical Education in High School Reform: Career and Technical Education Responding to Industry Needs with Phyllis Eisen, Vice President, The Manufacturing Institute and Executive Director, The Center for Workforce Success, Duane Crum, California State Director, Project Lead the Way (forum Brief and webcast)
- 03/8/2007
- Philadelphia’s Project U-Turn, Citywide Efforts to Address the Dropout Problem with Paul Vallas, Chief Executive Officer, School District of Philadelphia, Ruth Curran Neild, Research Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University, Courtney Collins-Shapiro, Director, Multiple Pathways to Graduation, School District of Philadelphia, Laura Shubilla, President of the Philadelphia Youth Network. (forum Brief)
- 06/23/2006
- Middle Grades Reform: Breaking Ranks in the Middle and Schools to Watch with John Nori, Director, School Leadership Services, National Association of Secondary Schools Principals, Irv Howard, Director, California Schools to Watch, Linda Hopping, Co-Chair, Georgia Lighthouse Schools to Watch (Forum brief)
- 05/19/2006
- Career and Technical Education's Role in High School Reform with the Association for Career and Technical Education (Forum brief)
- 03/17/2006
- The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to Degree Completion from High School Through College with Cliff Adelman, Senior Research Analyst, Department of Education (forum brief)
- 05/18/2005
- Why Rural Matters, 2005: The Facts About Rural Education in the 50 States, with Rachel Tompkins, President, Marty Strange, Director of Policy Programs, and Jerry Johnson, State Policy Studies Manager, Rural School and Community Trust. (Congressional breifing)
- 03/11/2005
- Restoring the Balance between Academics and Civic Engagement in Public Schools with Sarah Pearson, Program Associate, American Youth Policy Forum; Gene Carter, Executive Director and CEO, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; Shelley H. Billig, Vice President, RMC Research; Barbara Greenspan Shaiman, Founder and Executive Director, Champions of Caring, Ann Marie Marranzini, English Teacher, University City High School, Philadelphia, PA; and Shanae Bentley, Senior, University City High School, Philadelphia, PA. (Press Release)
- 04/16/2004
- States and Districts Can Make Progress and Close the Achievement Gap. Research Reveals Clear Results in School Improvement in Schools Using America’s Choice School Design, The No Child Left Behind Act encourages schools to seek out school improvement plans that have been scientifically proven to raise student achievement. This forum looks at one such plan: the America's Choice School Design. (Forum Brief)
- 7/1/2004
- Four “Ex-Feds” Discuss Federal Education, Considering the increasingly important role that the federal government plays in education, it is important to consider the successes, failures, and possible futures of federal education policy. Accordingly, the American Youth Policy Forum gathered a panel of four senior veterans of federal education policymaking to share their insight. (Forum Brief)
- 3/19/2004
- Creating Academically Proficient and Civically Engaged Students- Through the No Child Left Behind Act (Part 3) Through the Lens of Practitioners and Administrators - Finding Common Ground: Joining Forces to Close the Achievement and Civic Development Gap, with Sheldon Berman, Superintendent of Schools, Hudson School District; John Taylor Gatto, author and New York Educator of the Year, 1990; Mary Rodgers, District Service-Learning Facilitator, Abington School District; John Schmidt, Director of Service-Learning, Office of High School Development, Chicago Public Schools. (Forum Brief)
- 2/27/2004
- Meeting the Highly Qualified Teacher Requirement of NCLB and IDEA: Alternative Routes for Special Education Teachers, with Paul Sindelar, Center on Personnel Studies in Special Education, University of Florida; William Fink, Director of Exceptional Student Education, Volusia County Schools, Daytona Beach, FL; and Eric Carlton, President, Banner Schools LLC, Chicago, IL. (Forum Brief)
- 2/20/2004
- Creating Academically Proficient and Civically Engaged Students - Through the No Child Left Behind Act (Part 2) Through the Lens of State Policymakers - Raising Academic Achievement While Supporting Civic Development, with Suellen Reed, State Superintendent of Indiana; Terry Bergeron, State Superintendent of Washington; and Elizabeth Burmaster, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Wisconsin. (Forum Brief)
- 1/23/2004
- Creating Academically Proficient and Civically Engaged Students Through the No Child Left Behind Act (Part 1) Through the lens of Researchers -- Implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB): What Role for Civic Development? with Shelley H. Billig, Vice President, RMC Research; Andy Furco, Director, Service-Learning Research and Development Center University of California-Berkeley; Elliott Medrich, Director, Policy Analysis and Development, MRP Associates; William Galston, Director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland and CIRCLE (The Center for Information& Research on Civic Learning & Engagement); and Judith Torney-Purta, Professor, University of Maryland. (Forum Brief)
- 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)
- 11/19/1999
- ESEA Reauthorization: Where Are We on the Process? (Forum Brief)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
Trip Reports
- 09/29/08-
09/30/08 - High School Redesign in Long Beach, California: Investing in Human Capital and Professional Development: The Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) is able to boast high-performing schools in every section of the district. Its stellar accomplishments have earned it a number of national honors. LBUSD is the 2003 national winner of the Broad Prize for Urban Education and is a finalist for the 2008 Broad Prize, to be awarded in October 2008. Earlier this year, Newsweek magazine named six of Long Beach’s high schools to its list of top U.S. high schools. (Field Trip)
- 11/7/2007-
11/9/2007 - State Policy Trip to Little Rock, AR, November 7-9, 2007: Expanding Advanced Placement Participation and Building Public Will. Highlights from this trip included meetings with T. Kenneth James, AR Commissioner of Education; Senator Jim Argue, Chair of the AR Senate Education Committee; Kathryn Hazelett, Governor Mike Beebe's Education Policy Advisor; Steve Floyd, Director of the AR Department of Higher Education; as well as other policy and education experts at the state level. In addition, we visited the historic Little Rock Central High School and the Wilbur Mills University Study School. (Trip Report)
Publications
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No Child Left Behind:
Improving Educational Outcomes for Students with Disabilities Improving Educational Outcomes for Students with Disabilities explores how attitudes and expectations for students with disabilities are changing as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Overall, there is strong support for increasing expectations for students with disabilities and helping them to improve their academic outcomes. At the same time, there is concern about how states and schools will manage this process, largely as a function of lack of knowledge of effective interventions and strategies. The paper, written by American Youth Policy Forum and Educational Policy Institute, was commissioned by National Council on Disability to assist policy leaders and stakeholders in identifying, disseminating, and aligning evidence-based practices with the Federal Government's commitment to leaving no child behind in the attainment of a free appropriate and high quality public education. |
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