For those who are not attending today’s NY Times Schools For Tomorrow event, it is streaming live all day on their website: http://nytschoolsfortomorrow.com/
Topics being covered include:
- Perspectives on education issues from the campaign trail
- Global overview – Canada, Australia, Finland, Singapore
- Economics metrics of education in the U.S. compared to abroad
- How to increase the status and perception of the profession and attract top talent
- Teacher salaries & merit-based pay
- Measuring teacher performance
- Role of teachers’ unions
- Chicago teachers’ strike
- Influence of Teach For America
- Role of federal/local government in educational reform
- Future of education
- Building support structures – school mentorship, teacher-training programs, and supporting teachers to deliver better instruction
- Changing role of the teacher
Highlights include:
- David Brooks as moderator
- Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University Professor of Education
- Kaya Henderson, Chancellor of the D.C. Public School System (successor to Michelle Rhee)
- Keynote address by Aneesh Chopra, former Chief Technology Officer for the U.S.
- Remarks from Chancellor Dennis Walcott
If teaching, in the words of Linda Darling-Hammond, is “the profession on which all other professions depend,” today’s subject of how to improve that profession makes for a meaningful and worthwhile conversation.