Diane Silvers Ravitch is a historian of education,an educational policy analyst,and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture,Education,and Human Development. Previously,she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. In 2010,she became "an activist on behalf of public schools". Her blog at DianeRavitch.net has received more than 36 million page views since she began blogging in 2012. Ravitch writes for the New York Review of Books.
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act;it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding,states had to give these assessments to all students at select grade levels.
The University of Huddersfield is a public research university located in Huddersfield,West Yorkshire,England. It has been a University since 1992,but has its origins in a series of institutions dating back to the 19th century. It has made teaching quality a particular focus of its activities,winning the inaugural Higher Education Academy Global Teaching Excellence Award,and achieving a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold Award,both in 2017. It has consistently been ranked among the leading universities in England for the proportion of its staff with a teaching qualification,and in 2022 was at the top with 94%. The University has also put an increasing focus on research quality,and as of 2022 more than three quarters of its academic staff hold a doctorate,the third highest rate in England.
Bank Street College of Education is a private school and graduate school in New York City. It consists of a graduate-only teacher training college and an independent nursery-through-8th-grade school. In 2020 the graduate school had about 65 full-time teaching staff and approximately 850 students,of which 87% were female.
Community High School (CHS) is a public,magnet high school serving grades 9–12 in Ann Arbor,Michigan,in the United States. Located on a 3.2-acre (13,000 m2) site at 401 North Division Street near the city's Kerrytown district,CHS today enrolls approximately 450 students.
The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario in Canada. It was legislated into creation in 1996 in response to recommendations made by the Royal Commission on Learning in February 1995.
Joel Irwin Klein is an American lawyer and school superintendent. He was the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education,the largest public school system in the United States,serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools. He was succeeded by Cathie Black in January 2011.
The High School for Math,Science and Engineering at City College is one of the twelve public specialized high schools in New York City,United States. It caters to highly gifted students from across the city. It is located within the campus of the City College of New York (CCNY).
Leonard Suransky is a South African doctor of International Relations and Education and is the former Head of the Department of International Relations at Webster University in Leiden,Netherlands. Subsequently,he headed the IR department of Webster University,Accra Ghana from 2014-to 2019,and still teaches there by Zoom in 2022. He is currently the co-chair of the University of the Third Age (U3a),Cape Town,and the Chair of the Camps Bay U3a branch
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) is the department of the New York state government responsible for the supervision for all public schools in New York and all standardized testing,as well as the production and administration of state tests and Regents Examinations. In addition,the State Education Department oversees higher education,cultural institutions such as museums and libraries,vocational rehabilitation,and the licensing of numerous professions. It is headed by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York (USNY) and administered by the Commissioner of Education.
Harold Oscar Levy was an American lawyer and philanthropist who last served as the executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Having previously held leadership roles as a corporate attorney,venture capital investor and as a manager in the financial services industry,Levy is best known for having served as Chancellor of the New York City public schools,the largest school system in the U.S.,from 2000 to 2002.
Linda Darling-Hammond is an American academic who is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She was also the President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. She is author or editor of more than 25 books and more than 500 articles on education policy and practice. Her work focuses on school restructuring,teacher education,and educational equity. She was education advisor to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and was reportedly among candidates for United States Secretary of Education in the Obama administration.
The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) is a state agency in Rhode Island that oversees the elementary and secondary education system from pre-Kindergarten through high school. It is headquartered in Providence. RIDE works closely with the Rhode Island Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner (RIOPC),the agency charged with overseeing higher education. Together,RIDE and RIOPC aim to provide an aligned,cohesive,and comprehensive education for all students.
David Milton Steiner is executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and professor of education at Johns Hopkins University. His previous appointments include New York State Commissioner of Education in the New York State Education Department;director of arts education at the National Endowment for the Arts;founding director of the City University of New York Institute for Education Policy at Roosevelt House and the Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean at the Hunter College School of Education;and member of the Maryland State Board of Education and Maryland Commission for Innovation and Excellence in Education. Steiner currently serves on the boards of the Core Knowledge Foundation and Relay Graduate School of Education. Most recently,he was appointed to the Practitioner Council at the Hoover Institute,Stanford University.
Cathleen Prunty "Cathie" Black is a former New York City Schools Chancellor. On April 7,2011,Black stepped down from her position after 95 days on the job. Her appointment to replace longtime Chancellor Joel Klein was announced on November 9,2010 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and became effective on January 3,2011. Black required a waiver to replace Klein,as she did not possess the education administration experience required by New York State's Education Department. She was replaced by New York City Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott.
John B. King Jr. is an American educator,civil servant,and former state and federal government official who is the 15th Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY). He previously served as President &CEO of The Education Trust,a national civil rights nonprofit which seeks to identify and close opportunity and achievement gaps for students from preschool through college. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 10th United States Secretary of Education from January 1,2016 to January 20,2017 under President Barack Obama. In April 2021,King announced that he would be running for the Democratic nomination in the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election,but came in sixth place in the primary election,losing to Baltimore author Wes Moore.
Leonard Covello was an Italian-born American educator,most known as the founder and first principal of the Benjamin Franklin High School and for his work on behalf of the children of Italian and Puerto Rican immigrants.
Carmen Fariña is a former New York City Schools Chancellor and head of the New York City Department of Education. Announced by Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio on December 30,2013,she was the first New York City chancellor to have had schools supervision training and experience since Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew.
Phil Weinberg is the Deputy Chief Academic Officer for Teaching and Learning at the New York City Department of Education. In this role,Weinberg oversees initiatives to strengthen instruction and enhance student learning across the City's 1600+ district schools.
Sasha Polakow-Suransky is an American journalist and author. He is the deputy editor of Foreign Policy,and a former staff editor of International Op-Ed page at the New York Times and former senior editor of Foreign Affairs.
