Briefs
- 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)
- 1/24/2001
- The Supports Students Need to Meet High Academic Standards, co-sponsored with DCVoice, with Dr. Asa Hilliard, Georgia State University on the occasion of the release of a new report by DC VOICE entitled, "Half the Solution: A Community Based Research Project on the Supports Students Need to Meet High Academic Standards." (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)
- 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)
- 6/15/1999
- Dinner discussion with Superindendent of Fairfax County Schools, Dr. Daniel Domenech. (Dinner Discussion)
- 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)
- 2/28/1997
- Teaching the New Basic Skills: Linking Schools, the Economy and Education Reform, with Richard Murnane, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Frank Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Forum Brief)
- 2/7/1997
- Redesigning Schools for Success: An Overview of New American Schools, with John Anderson, President, New American Schools. (Forum Brief)
- 9/6/1996
- Early Learning: Four Roads to Academic Success, with Jim Spahr, Producer, The Merrow Report. (Forum and Video Premiere)
Trip Reports
- 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 include 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)
