When
Monday, April 15, 2013
Registration 8:00 AM
Luncheon
Action Plan Ends 5:00 PM CDT
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Contact
Center for Tax and Budget AccountabilityKathy Miller
312-332-1481
kmiller@ctbaonline.org
Links:
For Each and Every Child Compendium
For Each and Every Child Commission Report
Reframing Reform: Achieving Equity and Excellence in Public Education
A national conversation on reforms to ensure all children receive meaningful educational opportunity.
Speakers will identify evidence-based drivers proven to enhance student achievement, key barriers that have inhibited American reform, and
strategies for moving forward.
Pasi Sahlberg
Director General
CIMO, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
Keynote Speaker
"Finnish Lessons on equity and excellence:
Context, policies and reforms"
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education,
who will be introducing education reform legislation
Luncheon Speaker
“Discussion and Dialogue to Move the American Equity Agenda”
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Getting Education Reform Right: capacity building, systems reform, changing expectations of testing, lessons learned
- Dr. Byron T. Brazier, Pastor of Apostolic Church of God; Chairman, Network of Woodlawn
- Dr. Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
- Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, Professor of Asian American Studies and Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, and President, National Association for Multicultural Education
- Jitu Brown, Education Organizer, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO)
- Ralph Martire, Executive Director, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability; Commissioner, U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission
- Julian Vasquez Heilig, Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Planning and African and African Diaspora Studies (by courtesy) at The University of Texas at Austin. He blogs at Cloaking Inequity.
- Dr. Pedro Noguera, Agnew Professor of Education, New York University
- Dr. Jeannie Oakes, Director, Educational Opportunity and Scholarship, Ford Foundation
- Dr. Penny Bender Sebring, Founding Co-Director, University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research, Urban Education Institute
Sponsored by:
The Chicago Community Trust
Field Foundation of Illinois
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
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K.MILLER, CTBA, 70 E. LAKE STREET, SUITE 1700, CHICAGO, IL 60601