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March

28
2007

9:00 am EDT - 11:00 am EDT

Past Event

Excellence in the Classroom: Improving the Quality of Teaching in America’s Schools

  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007

    9:00 am - 11:00 am EDT

The Brookings Institution
Falk Auditorium

1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC

As Congress considers reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, advocates, and parents are concerned about how to meet the requirement that states provide every student with high-quality teachers. To address these concerns, Brookings and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School released the latest volume of The Future of Children journal, “Excellence in the Classroom.”

On March 28 a slate of panelists including members of Congress, journal contributors, and other researchers and administrators, discussed options for improving teacher quality including in-service training, mentoring, and the recruitment of new, high-quality teachers.

Agenda

  • March 28
    • Moderator

      ludwig
      Jens Ludwig Professor - University of Chicago

      haskins
      Ron Haskins Senior Fellow Emeritus - Economic Studies

    • Overview

      brian jacob headshot
      Brian A. Jacob Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy; Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education - University of Michigan, Former Brookings Expert
    • Panelists

      HMC
      Hon. Michael Castle U.S. Representative (R-Del.)
      CGM
      Congressman George Miller D-California
      DJ
      Deborah Jewell-Sherman Superintendent of Schools, Richmond, VA Public Schools
      KW
      Kate Walsh President - National Council on Teacher Quality
      Weingarten
      Randi Weingarten President - American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
      Thomas Kane Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University