EVENTS
2008 Education Policy Forum
Educational Excellence: Engaging Communities in Public Education Renewal
Co-Sponsored by the
Utah Education Policy Center and the Utah Council of Education Deans
November 14th, 2008
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Featuring Keynote Speaker Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Marilyn Cochran-Smith is the John E. Cawthorne Professor of Education and Director of the Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction. An active researcher and participant in the national and international educational research communities, Cochran-Smith is the Immediate Past-President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Co-Chair of AERA's National Panel on Research and Teacher Education. She is also the Editor of The Journal of Teacher Education and Co-Editor of the Teachers College Press series on Practitioner Inquiry. Dr. Cochran-Smith is Chair of the Evidence Team for Boston College's Teachers for a New Era project and a member of the TNE Leadership Team. In 2004, Marilyn Cochran-Smith received the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's highest honor, the Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education and the Carl A. Grant Multicultural Research Award presented to her by the National Association for Multicultural Education. Dr. Cochran-Smith has written many award-winning articles and books on diversity in teaching and teacher education, teacher research, teacher learning, and competing agendas for education reform, including Policy, Practice and Politics in Teacher Education: Editorials from the Journal of Teacher Education (2006), Walking the Road: Race, Diversity and Social Justice in Teacher Education (2004), and Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge (1993), which was the winner of 1995 AACTE Award for Excellence in Professional Writing in Teaching and Teacher Education.
Utah Education Policy Forum
November 12, 2007
Co-Sponsored by the Utah Education Policy Center and the Utah Council of Education Deans
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Keynote Speakers:
Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. Professor Darling-Hammond has also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. Prior to Stanford, Darling-Hammond was William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University . There, she was the founding Executive Director of the National Commission for Teaching and America 's Future, the blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, catalyzed major policy changes across the United States to improve the quality of teacher education and teaching. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of teaching quality, school reform, and educational equity. Among her more than 200 publications is The Right to Learn, recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 1998, and Teaching as the Learning Profession (co-edited with Gary Sykes), recipient of the National Staff Development Council's Outstanding Book Award for 2000.
* --Click here to an interview with Dr. Darling-Hammond on Radio West*
Richard E. Kendell is Utah's Commissioner of Higher Education and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Regents. The Commissioner and his staff provide support to the Board of Regents and the institutions of the Utah System of Higher Education.
Contact Cori Groth at 801-585-5566 for further information or questions regarding the Utah Education Policy Forum.
News
U. Ed Policy Center joins 25-state alliance
by Wendy Leonard
Deseret Morning News
Published: Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007 12:31 a.m. MST
An alliance between college and university research centers in 25 different states promises to increase availability and access to more resources on educational policy issues.
The University of Utah's Education Policy Center is one of 35 university education research centers nationally that have formed the Education Policy Alliance.
"It not only broadens our background but also gives us an affiliation and relationship with other centers doing research and evaluation work," said Andrea Rorrer, director of UEPC at the U. When questions dealing with various education policy issues are presented, the networked centers can draw upon each other's previous research and use it as a springboard for their own research.
FULL STORY:
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695236309,00.html
Education for jobs of future hot topic at forum
by Wendy Leonard
Deseret Morning News
Published: Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007 12:16 a.m. MST
Giving Utah's students the education they need to either get a job or go to college was the topic of discussion at the Utah Education Policy Forum Monday.
FULL STORY:
http://deseretnews.com/article/1%2C5143%2C695227810%2C00.html
KCPW's Midday Metro: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 http://kcpw.org/article/4264
What does size really mean when it comes to school districts? In a study commissioned by several cities looking to form smaller school districts in Utah, Andrea Rorrer, Ph.D, director of the Utah Education Policy Center at the University of Utah, says larger school districts may be better when it comes to implementing reform. Download Audio file...
Is smaller better for districts? Governance, not size, is the key, U. study says
By Jennifer Toomer-Cook and Leigh Dethman
Deseret Morning News
A smaller school district doesn't necessarily bring a more effective and responsive local school board or higher student achievement, but schools certainly could be governed differently than they are now.
Posted: August 3, 2007
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Report: If Granite School District splits, west would be poorer, have more minorities
By Julia Lyon, Roxana Orellana, and Sheena McFarland
The Salt Lake Tribune
If the Granite School District splits, the remaining west-side district would have significantly more minority students and poor families than its neighbor to the east, according to an analysis by the Utah Education Policy Center released Thursday.
Posted: August 3, 2007
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