Event Agenda

• Welcome and Introduction

  • Michael H. Armacost

    President, The Brookings Institution

  • 

    Lois Dickson Rice

    Guest Scholar

    Economic Studies

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• Remarks

  • Marshall Smith

    Acting Deputy Secretary of Education

  • The Hon. Chakah Fattah (D-Penn.)

    U.S. House of Representatives

• Panel on GEARUP

  • Moderator

    

    Lois Dickson Rice

    Guest Scholar

    Economic Studies

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  • The Hon. Chakah Fattah (D-Penn.)

    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Pauline Abernathy

    Department of Education

  • Edward Fuentes

    Department of Education

  • Steve Zwerling

    Senior Director of the Ford Foundation for education, media, arts and culture

  • Linda Shiller

    Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (Outreach Director)

  • Juliet Garcia

    U.Texas, Brownsville (Chancellor)

• Panel on LAAP and Distance Learning

  • Moderator

    Maureen McLaughlin

    Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning and Innovation in Post-Secondary Education, Dept. of Education

  • Brian Lekander

    Department of Education

  • Mary Beth Susman

    Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University (Chief Executive Officer)

  • Robert Albrecht

    Western Governors University (Chancellor)

  • Sally Johnstone

    Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education

• Luncheon

• Panel on Title II Teacher Quality

  • Moderator

    Michael Timpane

    The Rand Corporation

  • Terry Dozier

    Department of Education

  • Edward Crowe

    Department of Education

  • David Imig

    American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (President)

  • Barnett Berry

    National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (Director, SE Office)

  • Sally Clausen

    Southeastern Louisiana University (President)

• Closing Remarks

  • Arthur Hauptman

    Brookings Consultant