Past Event
Forum

Strengthening Student Learning Through Innovation and Flexibility

Monday, March 28, 2016
Education

On March 28, The Hamilton Project hosted a policy forum exploring options for strengthening student learning through innovation and flexibility, with a focus on three new Hamilton Project policy proposals to be released in conjunction with the forum.

The forum began with a fireside chat between Allan Golston, President of U.S. Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Anthony Bryk, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Additional event participants included: James Cole, General Counsel, delegated duties of Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education; Jim Manzi, Author of Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society; Robert Hughes, President, New Visions for Public Schools; Richard Murnane, Thompson Research Professor of Education and Society, Harvard University Graduate School of Education; Carol R. Johnson, Former Superintendent of Boston, Memphis and Minneapolis Public Schools; and Grover “Russ” Whitehurst, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution.

During the forum, two roundtable discussions highlighted the following forthcoming Hamilton Project proposals: “Improving High School Outcomes for Poor Adolescents: Scaling up the Match/SAGA Tutorials” by Roseanna Ander (University of Chicago), Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern University), and Jens Ludwig (University of Chicago); “Increasing Targeting, Flexibility, and Transparency in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to Help Disadvantaged Students” by Nora E. Gordon (Georgetown University); and “Learning What Works in K-12 Education, with a Case Study of EDUSTAR” by Aaron K. Chatterji (Duke University) and Benjamin F. Jones (Northwestern University).

Agenda

1:00 PM Registration Opens

1:30 PM Welcome and Introductions

Robert E. Rubin
Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary

1:40 PM Fireside Chat: New Directions for K-12 Education

Discussant: Allan Golston
President of US Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Discussant: Anthony Bryk
President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Moderator: Diane Schanzenbach
Director, The Hamilton Project

2:30 PM Roundtable: Improving Targeting and Flexibility for Title I Funding

Author: Nora Gordon
Associate Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University

Discussant: James Cole
General Counsel, delegated duties of Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education

Discussant: Richard Murnane
Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Research Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Discussant: Carol R. Johnson
Visiting Professor Vanderbilt University; Former Superintendent of Boston, Memphis and Minneapolis Public School Districts

Moderator: Cory Turner
Senior Editor, NPR Ed, National Public Radio

3:20 PM Break

3:30 PM Roundtable: Exploring New Tools to Strengthen Student Learning

Author: Jonathan Guryan
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University

Author: Aaron Chatterji
Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy, Duke University Fuqua School of Business and Sanford School of Public Policy

Author: Benjamin Jones
Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship, Professor of Strategy, and Faculty Director, Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative

Discussant: Jim Manzi
Founder and Partner, FoundryDC; Author of Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society

Discussant: Bob Hughes
President, New Vision for Public Schools

Discussant: Grover “ Russ” Whitehurst
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution

Moderator: Lili Lynton
Founding Partner, Boulud Restaurant Group

4:30 PM Forum Adjourns

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1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA

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