The challenges of school reform
Subtitle: implementation, impact, and sustainability
By: edited by Lewis C. Solmon, Kimberly Firetag Agam, Citadelle Priagula.
Contributors: Solmon, Lewis C.; Agam, Kimberly Firetag.; Priagula, Citadelle.
Series: The Milken Family Foundation series on education policy
Publisher: IAP-Information Age Pub. Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: School improvement programs -- United States -- Congresses.; Educational change -- United States -- Congresses.; Educational planning -- United States -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "A compilation of the proceedings from the 2005 Milken Family Foundation National Education Conference (NEC) held in Washington, D.C. in April 2005"--P. xiv.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lewis C. Solmon, Kimberly Firetag Agam, and Citadelle Priagula; title: The challenges of school reform; title: The challenges of school reform: implementation, impact and sustainability / Lowell Milken, Anthony Amato, Congressman Chaka Fattah, Jennifer A. Marshall, Thomas W. Payzant, Ray Simon, and Paul G. Vallas; title: Presentation by Congressman Ralph Regula; title: No child left behind (NCLB) presentation  by Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education, United States Department of Education; title: Meeting the requirements of no child left behind / Lewis C. Solmon, Antonia Cortese, David P. Driscoll, Nina Shokaraii Rees, and Andrew Rotherham; title: Panel contributions / Nina Shokaraii Rees, and Andrew Rotherham; title: Panel contributions; title: NCLB: its problems, its promise / Antonia Cortese; title: Remarks before the Midwest Equity Assistance Center / Nina Shokaraii Rees; title: Hopes and hazards: no child left behind and low-performing public schools / Andrew Rotherham; title: Teacher quality; title: The teacher advancement program / Tamara W. Schiff; title: Presentation by Senator Mary Landrieu; title: Intersection of performance pay and professional development / Kristan Van Hook, T. Kenneth James, Cecil J. Picard, Alice Seagren, Lewis C. Solmon, and J. Todd White; title: Panel contributions; title: Encouraging teachers to invest paying off for Louisiana / Cecil J. Picard; title: Should we pay and train teachers differently? / Alice Seagren and Ken Wolf; title: Teacher quality key for school reform / Lowell Milken and Lewis C. Solmon; title: Framing the future: pre-K through higher education; title: Early childhood: the proper path for the future / Stephen Goldsmith, Libby Doggett, Ron Haskins, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Dennis Vicars, and Elanna Yalow; title: Shaping K-12 education, presentation by Governor Tim Pawlenty; title: Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act / J. Ted Sanders, Guilbert C. Hentschke, Sally L. Stroup, Ben Wildavsky, Susan Tave Zelman; title: Panel contributions; title: Closing achievement gaps / Ron Haskins and Cecilia Rouse; title: Ohio's approach to high quality teaching / Susan Tave Zelman; title: Conference presenters' bios.