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Appendixes
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Conference and Workshop Agendas
MILLENNIUM CONFERENCE: ACHIEVING HIGH EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ALL
The National Academies
Washington, DC
September 21-22, 2000
Thursday, September 21
9:00
Introductory Remarks
Barbara Torrey, The National Academies
Judith Winston, General Counsel and Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Christopher Edley, Jr., Harvard University, and Catherine E. Snow, Harvard University, Co-Moderators
9:30
Keynote Address: Educational Access and Opportunity
Edmund Gordon, Yale University
Session I Opportunity and Achievement at the Threshold of the 21st Century
Catherine E. Snow, Moderator
10:00
Educational Achievement Trends of Minority Students Since Brown v. Board of Education
Marta Tienda, Princeton University
Coauthors: Kim Lloyd and Anna Zajacova, Princeton University
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Educational Prospects and Progress of Minority and Disadvantaged Students
Patricia Gándara, University of California, Davis
Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles
L. Scott Miller, eHigherEducation
Samuel Lucas, University of California, Berkeley
12:00
Discussion
12:30
Lunch
Session II Promoting Educational Achievement for All Students
Christopher Edley, Moderator
1:30
How People Learn
John Bransford, Vanderbilt University
2:10
Early Childhood Education
Barbara Bowman, Erikson Institute
2:30
Learning to Read
Catherine E. Snow, Harvard University
2:50
Discussion
3:20
Promoting Educational Success: Social and Cultural Considerations
Craig Ramey, University of Alabama
Eugene Garcia, University of California, Berkeley
Claude Steele, Stanford University
Antoine Garibaldi, Educational Testing Service
4:20
Discussion
5:00
Adjournment
Friday, September 22
Session III Using Policy Interventions to Raise Achievement
Christopher Edley, Moderator
9:00
Policy as a Tool to Raise Educational Achievement
Ronald Ferguson, Harvard University
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Policy Tools
Educational Adequacy
Jacob Adams, Vanderbilt University
Michael Rebell, The Campaign for Fiscal Equity
Standards, Accountability and High-Stakes Testing
Jay Heubert, Columbia University
Resegregation and School Choice
Gary Orfield, Harvard University
11:15
Discussion
Session IV Putting It Into Practice: Challenges and Successes of Research-Based Reform
Catherine E. Snow, Moderator
11:45
Improving the Academic Achievements of Historically Low-Achieving Students: What We Know and What We Need to Learn
Samuel Stringfield, Johns Hopkins University
12:15
Lunch
1:15
Organizing Districts for Effort-Based Reform
Lauren Resnick, University of Pittsburgh
Diana Lam, Providence Public Schools
2:00
Reforming Mathematics in an Urban School Setting
Diane Briars, Pittsburgh Public Schools
Brian Lord, Education Development Center
2:45
Whole-School Reform
Robert Slavin, Success for All Foundation
Bertha Rubio, Crockett Elementary School, San Antonio, TX
3:30
Discussants
Barbara Foorman, University of Texas
Michael Klentschy, El Centro School District, CA
Carmen Varela Russo, Baltimore City Public Schools, MD
4:15
Wrap It Up and Take It Home
Christopher Edley, Jr., and Catherine E. Snow, Co-Moderators
5:00
Adjournment
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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE/CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP
The National Academies
Washington, DC
April 14-15, 2000
Friday, April 14
9:00
Opening Remarks, Introduction of Cochairs
Faith Mitchell, Director, Division on Social and Economic Studies
Cora Marrett, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Massachusetts
Catherine E. Snow, Henry Shattuck Professor of Education, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
9:15
Providing Focus, The Purpose of the Workshop
C. Kent McGuire, Assistant Secretary, Education Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
9:30
Supporting Teachers, Improving Teaching Practices
Annemarie Palincsar, Professor, University of Michigan, School of Education
10:00
Discussion
10:15
Break
10:30
Technical Assistance for Teaching with Technology
Robert Tinker, President, Concord Consortium
Louis Gomez, Associate Professor of Education and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
11:30
Discussion
12:00
Lunch
12:45
From Research to Practice—Scaling Up Technical Assistance
Barbara Foorman, Professor and Director, Center for Academic and Reading Skills
Reading is a Civil Right
Phyllis Hunter, Consultant, Texas Statewide Reading Initiatives
1:45
Discussion
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Providing Technical Assistance for Specific Curricula
Sheila Sconiers, Director, The Alternatives for Rebuilding Curricula Center (ARC), Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP, Inc.)
Sally Goetz Shuler, Deputy Director for External Relations, Development, and Outreach, National Science Resources Center, and Coprincipal Investigator for the Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) Initiative
3:15
Discussion
3:45
Break
4:00
Success for All: Technical Assistance Through a Scripted Curriculum
Robert Slavin, Chairman, Success for All Foundation and Codirector, Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, Johns Hopkins University
4:30
A Regional TA Provider’s Strategies for Supporting States, Districts, and Schools to Effect Comprehensive and Ongoing School Improvement
Wende Allen, Director, New England Comprehensive Assistance Center
5:00
Discussion
5:30
Adjournment
Saturday, April 15
9:15
Summary, Previous Day’s Proceedings
Cora Marrett and Catherine E. Snow, Co-Moderators
9:45
Technical Assistance: What Do We Know? What We Need to Learn?
David K. Cohen, John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Education and Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan, School of Education
10:30
Break
10:45
Discussion
12:00
Lunch
1:00
Recommendations for Technical Assistance—A Framework
2:00
Adjournment
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ACHIEVING HIGH EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ALL: THE ROLE OF THE LAW
The National Academies
Washington, D.C.
June 29-30, 2000
Thursday, June 29
9:00
Opening Remarks
Alexandra Wigdor, CBASSE Deputy Director, National Research Council
Judith A. Winston, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education
9:20
Workshop Objectives
Making Connections: Educational Adequacy, Accountability, Assessment, and Systemic Reform
Jacob Adams, Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
Improving Collaboration Between Lawyers, Educators, and Scholars
Jay Heubert, Associate Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Educational Equity and Adequacy
9:50
State Constitutional Issues
The Paradigm Shift
Jacob Adams, Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
Developing New School Finance Systems: A New Era
James Smith, President, Management Analysis and Planning, Inc.
Respondent: Betsy Levin, Visiting Professor of Law, Nova Southeastern Law School, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
11:00
Discussion
11:30
Break
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Emerging Issues
Title VI
Judith Winston, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education
Scott Palmer, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
12:30
Discussion
1:00
Lunch
2:00
Adequacy, Democracy, and Standards-Based Reform
Michael Rebell, Executive Director and Counsel, The Campaign for Fiscal Equity
Respondent: William Taylor, Cochair of Citizens Commission on Civil Rights
3:00
Discussion
3:30
Break
3:45
Enforceable Performance Mandates in Federal Education Statutes
Paul Weckstein, Codirector, Center for Law and Education
4:30
Discussion
5:00
Adjournment
Friday, June 30
High-Stakes Testing
9:00
Principles of Appropriate Test Use: Widely Accepted, Sometimes Ignored
William Trent, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Art Coleman, Counsel, Nixon Peabody LLP
Jay Heubert, Associate Professor of Education, Teachers College
10:00
Discussion
10:30
Break
l0:45
From Test Scores to Improved Achievement
Lorraine McDonnell, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of California at Santa Barbara
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Respondents:
Jennifer O’Day, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Julie Underwood, General Counsel, National School Boards Association
Lois Gray, Superintendent, Hardin County, Kentucky
11:45
Discussion
12:15
Working Lunch: Assessment of Students with Disabilities: Policy and Legal Issues
Margaret J. McLaughlin, Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children
Respondents:
Lorraine McDonnell, Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara
Ken Warlick, Director, Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education
1:15
Discussion
1:45
Implications for Policy and Practice
Jacob Adams and Jay Heubert, Moderators
2:15
Millennium Conference Recommendations
Jay Heubert and Jacob Adams, Moderators
3:15
Adjournment
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