Advice from educators & policymakers
“Focus on poverty”
Dan Domenech former superintendent of Fairfax County, Va., Public Schools is currently the Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators.
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“Equitable national funding systems for schools”
Don Moore is Executive Director of Designs for Change, a 30-year-old, multi-racial, educational research and reform organization.
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“Treat teaching as national service”
Don Shalvey is an American educator. He is president and co-founder of Aspire Public Schools, a non-profit charter school management organization.
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“Make sense out of this economy”
Jack Jennings is president and CEO of the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy.
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“Get the federal role in accountability straightened out”
Rick Hess is a faculty associate at the Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance and serves on the Review Board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education.
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“Re-think the achievement gap”
Robert Fried is associate professor of education at Northeastern University in Boston, and works with teachers and parents in schools around the country. He also the author of The Passionate Teacher: A Practical Guide.
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“The quality of our K-12 education system has an enormous impact on future economic well being”
Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is also chairman of the Executive Committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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“We have to move towards higher standards”
Paul Vallas is currently superintendent of the Recovery School District of New Orleans, Louisiana. He was formerly the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
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“There are many issues in our school that need to be resolved and we can’t wait 2-3 years”
Gerald Tirozzi is the executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He served as Connecticut’s Commissioner of Education from 1983-1991 and as Assistant Secretary of Education for the Clinton Administration.
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“The situation for our students is particularly urgent”
William Schmidt is a University Distinguished Professor and currently co-director of the Education Policy Center at Michigan State University.
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