Our favorite podcast hosts, Mike and Rick, will be discussing President Bush's education legacy at an American Enterprise Institute-hosted event in February. Take a look at the agenda:
Thursday, February 5, 2009, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Please register for this event online at www.aei.org/event1872.
With a new administration taking up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and George W. Bush's centerpiece No Child Left Behind Act up for reauthorization, Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies at AEI, and Michael J. Petrilli, vice president of national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, consider the education legacy of the Bush administration in their forthcoming article "Left at the Altar." They note that the administration found common cause with progressive reformers by pursuing ambitious policies focused on narrowing achievement gaps-but often at the expense of its own conservative principles. They also find that the po litical environment created in the past eight years presents not only challenges, but also surprising opportunities for reform.
Petrilli and Hess will be joined at this event by Williamson M. Evers, the Bush administration's assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation, and policy development; Dianne M. Pich??, the executive director of the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights; and Andrew J. Rotherham, the co-director of Education Sector, an education policy think tank. Hess will moderate.
12:30 p.m.
Registration and Luncheon
1:00
Presenter:
MICHAEL J. PETRILLI, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Discussants:
WILLIAMSON M. EVERS, Hoover Institution
DIANNE M. PICH??, Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights
ANDREW J. ROTHERHAM, Education Sector
Moderator:
FREDERICK M. HESS, AEI
2:30
Adjournment
Please register online at www.aei.org/event1872 or by faxing this form to 202.862.7171. Shortly after the event occurs, a video webcast will be available on the AEI website at www.aei.org/eventvideos.
For more information, please contact Rosemary Kendrick at [email protected].
