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01/25/08
Improving the Transition from Middle Grades to High Schools:  The Role of Early Warning Indicators with Robert Balfanz, Associate Research Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University; Elaine Allensworth, Co-Director for Statistical Analysis, Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Chicago; Craig Jerald, Independent Consultant, Break the Curve Consulting (Forum Brief)
9/28/2007
Achievement Trap:  The Success and Struggle of America's High-Achieving Lower-Income Students with Kati Haycock, Director, Education Trust, Susan Traiman, Director of Education and Workforce Policy, Business Roundtable, Joshua Wyner, Vice President, Programs, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (forum Brief)
7/20/2007
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)
4/13/2007
Opening the Door to the American Dream: Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrants with Wendy Erisman, Senior Research Analyst and Director of Evaluation, Institute for Higher Education Policy, and Deborah A. Santiago, Vice President for Policy and Research, Excelencia in Education, and Margie McHugh, Co Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute. (forum Brief)
3/8/2007
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)
1/26/2007
Results from A National Study of Mathematics in Career and Technical Education with Jim Stone, Prinicpal Researcher, University of Minnesota, Joe Fullerton, Program Development Specialist, Lenape Technical School, Ford City, PA, and Jeff Linko, Teacher, Lenape Technical School, Ford City, PA. (Forum)
5/31/2002
Knowledge and Skills for Life: Findings from PISA, Programme for International Student Assessment, with Barry McGaw, Deputy Director for Education, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. (Forum Brief)
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)