United States Department of Education (USDOE) Web Broadcast
Public School Choice: From Research to Practice
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 3pm - 4:30pm EST
Article Submitted by: Dr. Judith Stein
The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, Nova Southeastern University’s Fischler School of Education and Human Services, the Florida Public School Choice Consortium and WestEd hosted a national webcast entitled Public School Choice: From Research to Practice..
This web broadcast was held at the 4th Annual Florida Public School Choice Consortium Conference in Orlando, Florida November 18-19, 2008. The conversation focused on the conditions that research has shown are needed to make school choice successful and the ways in which state and district practitioners are implementing replicable practices to improve their school choice programs based on this research and the four tenets of the Voluntary Public School Choice Program.
Speakers
- Dr. Mark Berends, Director of the USDOE/Institute for Education Sciences-funded National Center on School Choice
- Dr. Judith Stein, Executive Director of the National Institute for Educational Options at NSU-FSEHS
- Superintendent Maryellen Elia and Dr. Pansy Houghton, Director of Student Planning and Placement, Hillsborough County Public Schools
- Robert Canelli, Supervisor of Magnet Schools, New Haven Public Schools
- David Kikoler, Evaluator for New Haven Public Schools VPSC grant, American Education Solutions, Inc.
Sponsors
This event is sponsored by The Office of Innovation and Improvement's Voluntary Public School Choice Program, in collaboration with Nova Southeastern University’s Fischler School of Education and Human Services.
To view the web broadcast go to www.buildingchoice.org
