Videos

David Osborne examines the charter school movement and offers his outlook for the future of public education in his book, Reinventing America’s Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education Sys…

John Podesta talked about bipartisanship in education reform. He said that the recent elections taught the importance of the political process and that passing reform-minded laws would not w…

William Ouchi talked about his book The Secret of TSL: The Revolutionary Discovery That Raises School Performance (Simon & Schuster; September 1, 2009). In his book he reports on his researc…

Mr. Petrilli introduced two reports from the Fordham Foundation on the status of states' educational standards and approaches to implementing national standards and tests for K-12 students. …

The panelists talked about the state of America’s public schools. They focused on changes that had been made in the nation’s educational system since the publishing of the U.S. Department of…

The panelists talked about state implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act followed by different perspectives of the impact of federal education policy at the state and local level. Top…

Participants talked about teacher qualification and certification, focusing on the quality of higher education for teachers, the quality of teaching in public, private and charter schools, a…

After dinner, participants on the panel answered written questions from the audience about topics discussed earlier in the day, especially setting standards and assessing students and teache…

In a conference entitled, “Common Ground: Where Can Liberals and Conservatives Agree?” participants discussed conservative and liberal approaches to school and government reform. After prepa…

The guests evaluated the privatization of school systems for economic and educational reasons, with which many school systems are experimenting, or at least cotemplating.

The President’s Commission on Privatization heard testimony on the principle of choice in education. Chester Finn, an assistant secretary at the Department of Education, spoke on the popula…