On March 29, the American Enterprise Institute will celebrate a new report on teacher collective bargaining agreements written by Frederick M. Hess and Martin West. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will be on hand for the festivities and will share his vision for education reform. Registration will begin at 2:00 p.m.
On Wednesday, May 2nd, from 3:30 to 5:30 at the American Enterprise Institute, the following question will be posed: Does NCLB's focus on closing achievement gaps ignore today's high-achieving students, those who will be essential for America to retain its global competitiveness?
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On Tuesday, August 29 from noon to 2 p.m., the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation will host a lunchtime debate at the National Press Club about whether the state standards movement is faltering--and whether national testing is the logical replacement. Panelists include former West Virginia governor and Alliance for Excellent Education president Bob Wise; former U.S.
Gove, School Vouchers and a Fight to the Death with the Education Establishment, by Iain Martin, Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2010.
Amanda K. Miller and Kathryn Chandler, National Center for Education StatisticsOctober 2003
American Federation of TeachersFebruary 2005
American Institutes for ResearchNovember 2005
American students are achieving academic success until they reach middle school.
Andrew Sum and Paul Harrington, The Business RoundtableMay 2003
Andrew Sum, Irwin Kirsch and Robert Taggart, Policy Information Center, Educational Testing ServiceFebruary 2002
Anthony G. Picciano and Jeff SeamanSloan ConsortiumJanuary 2009
Association for Unsupervised Curriculum DevelopmentMarch 2008
Barbara Means, Christine Padilla, and Larry GallagherOffice of Planning, Evaluation and Policy DevelopmentU.S. Department of EducationJanuary 2010
A. Abdulkadiroglu, J. Angrist, S. Cohodes, S. Dynarski, J. Fullerton, T. Kane, P. PathakThe Boston FoundationJanuary 2009
Alex StandishRoutledge PublishersOctober 2008
Center on Education Policy2006
Chad AldemanEducation SectorJanuary 2010
Charles M. PayneHarvard Education Press2008Charles M. PayneHarvard Education Press2008
Christine Campbell, You're Leaving? Succession and Sustainability in Charter Schools (Seattle, WA: National Charter School Research Project, Center on Reinventing Public Education, November 2010).
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy and U.S. Department of EducationNovember 2002
Though recent developments in Iraq take some of the sting out of this mistake, it was wrong of me (in a Gadfly editorial on March 27) to analogize American teacher unions and ed schools to "Republican Guards," who were, at the time, battling brave U.S. servicemen and women. My point, of course, was that we, too, have institutions devoted to discredited regimes.
