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Frederick Hess talked his book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer.

Panelists talked about charter and private schools, and how they can best maintain their “edge” against the public system. They focused on money spent per student in charter/private systems vs. public systems, and…

Governor Dannel Malloy (D-CT) talked about his efforts in his state to address educational “achievement gaps,” the disparity in academic performance between groups of students. Connecticut had the largest…

Education policy advisers from the Obama and Romney campaigns debated education policy, the role of the federal government in education, and the best practices in closing achievement gaps…

Education policy leaders and professors, contributors to the recently published The Futures of School Reform, talked about reform of the education model in American schools.*They discussed the…

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 research on 442 schools…

Frederick Hess spoke about his book Common Sense School Reform, published by Palgrave Macmillan. He discusses the current state of American education with two authors that have written…

The third panel consisted of persons working in the field responding to the research discussed in the previous panel. Topics included accountability, costs of supplemental services, and…