“Support the reduction of class sizes”
Esther Wojcicki has been teaching Journalism and English at Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California for the past 25 years, where she has been the driving force behind the development of its award-winning journalism program.
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“Old commitment to inequality won’t get us where we need to go”
Linda Darling-Hammond is Professor of Education at Stanford University and Director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future.
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“Ignore the wonks. Talk to the teachers”
Alexander Russo is a freelance education writer and creator and editor of the popular education blog, This Week In Education. He also blogs at District 299: The Chicago Schools Blog.
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“Think carefully about our low performing students and provide solutions that are long lasting”
Sehba Ali is the Head of KIPP Schools in San Jose, California. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
“Transforming public education…is all about the human capital pipeline.”
Michael Johnston is Principal of the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts (MESA) in North Denver and was a co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools.
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“Attract the next generation of teachers”
Michael Bennet recently took the office of Colorado Senator after serving as superintendent of the Denver Public Schools . He came from outside the world of education, having been previously the chief of staff of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
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“Bring together a broader coalition than ever before”
Jon Schnur is the CEO and co-founder of New Leaders for New Schools, an organization that helps produce exceptional leaders that can improve school performance and drive educational excellence. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
“Recruitment of teachers of color because there is a huge gap”
David Omtoso Stovall is Associate Professor University of Illinois at Chicago. His scholarship focuses on the influence of race in urban education, community development, and housing. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
“Invite teachers to come in and talk”
Glen Westbroek is a middle school science teacher and science department chair at Orem Junior High in Orem, Utah. We talked with him at the Republican National Convention.
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Start with the teachers
Advice for the new President
1. Transcend the debate over NCLB and its standardized testing regime by — asking our nation’s best teachers to help design and implement a new accountability system that promotes 21 century learning and draws on the successes already occurring in their classrooms;
2. Transcend the debate over who should be recruited to teaching and how much preparation they should have by — discarding the idea that one teacher is solely responsible for 25 students. Instead, create policies that promote our best teachers serving as supervisors, evaluators, and coaches of a wide range of novices, adjuncts, and teaching assistants who collectively work with large [Read more...]
