Audio Advice
Advice on Education & Democracy
We look back before the election at some of the education advice given about education and democracy.
We spoke with Mike Rose who is an education scholar and Professor of Social Research Methodology in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Kris Guitierrez, a professor of Social Research Methodology at UCLA and Wendy Kopp, founder and president of Teach for America, the national teaching corps and asked what education advice they had for Barack Obama.
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Advice from the Harvard Graduate School of Education
We look back before the election at some of the education advice given from the Harvard School of Education.
We spoke with Kathleen McCartney, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Richard Murnane, an economist and Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Thomas Payzant, a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools and asked what education advice they had for Barack Obama.
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Advice on Accountability
States have adopted accountability measures in response to the concerns about the quality of American education. And there are reasons for concern. American 8th graders ranked 14th in the world in mathematics, science and reading literacy.
No Child Left Behind was an accountability measure put into play by former President Bush. But how should Obama’s administration hold the school system accountable?
To find out, we spoke with Bill Taylor, the chairman of the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights, Rick Hess a faculty associate at the Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance and Dr. Scott Conti, the principal of New Design High School in New York City.
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Advice from Higher Education Leaders
The economic crisis is posing big challenges to community colleges, public and private universities and is making paying for college a difficult task for the students that want to attend. We talk with a group of experts to figure out how students, administrators and policy makers can confront the challenges facing higher education.
We interviewed Margaret Miller, a professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Virginia and editor-in-chief of Change magazine, Molly Corbett Broad, President of the American Council on Education and Paul E. Lingenfelter, President of the National Association of State Higher Education Executives.
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Advice from Charter School Leaders
Education leaders seem to be pushing the boundaries of the traditional classroom. We wanted to get an idea of how much public school is changing and to assess the successes and challenges leaders are facing.
We interviewed KIPP cofounders David Levin and Mike Feinberg, The Director of the Center for School Change Joe Nathan and the Director of Gompers Charter Middle School Vincent Riveroll. Listen to the advice they have for president Obama regarding charter schools.
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Advice from Students Across the U.S.
Students have a lot at stake when it comes to education policy. To get their thoughts, we interviewed high school students from across the US.
This podcast features advice from Michael Martinez from San Antonio, Ricky La from San Francisco, Martin Macias from Chicago and Sierra Blair and Caitlan Rock from White Sulphur Springs, Montana and asked what education Advice they had for president Obama.
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Advice from Obama’s Inner Circle
Now that President Obama is in office what is he going to do about school funding, NCLB, special education and teacher training (to name a few)?
We look back before the election at some of the education advice given by folks who are now part of Obama’s inner circle, Arne Duncan, the US Secretary of Education, Linda Darling Hammond, Head of the Obama Education Policy Working Group and Jon Schnur, Co-chair of the Obama Presidential campaign’s Education Policy Committee.
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Advice from Vanguard High School
We visited Vanguard High school in New York City, which is home to 413 students. Vanguard opened in 1993 as part of the coalition of essential schools, which focuses on creating smaller more intimate learning environments. Vanguard is currently housed in the Julia Richmond Education Complex and shares the building with five other high schools. Unlike many of the public schools in New York City, Vanguard does performance-based assessments instead of standardized tests to measure what students have learned.
We interviewed Vanguard High School students Degora Anderson, Julissa Lopez, TJ Singletary, Katilin Nazario, Naquan Dodd and Declan Ryan and asked what education Advice they had for president Obama.
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Advice from Validus Prep Academy
Validus Preparatory Academy is a new small public high school in the Bronx, New York dedicated to academics, health, and fitness. Validus opened in September 2005 with 108 freshmen. Today the school has 440 students in grades 9-12 and will graduate its first class this spring.
We visit Validus Preparatory Academy to ask students Katye Gonzalez, Eric Caldwell, Milina Bryant and Ahmed Hunt for their Advice for President Obama to fix our education system.
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Advice on NCLB
Since it’s inception No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has been a hot button issue for educators and policy makers. Now that President Obama is in office should we get rid of NCLB or keep the system in place?
We look back before the election at some of the education advice that Randall Collins the president of the American Association of School Administrators, Jack Dale, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Sandy Kress, former education advisor to George W. Bush, and Eric Scroggins the Executive Director of Teach for America in the San Francisco Bay Area offered to the next President regarding NCLB.
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