What I Learned in School : Reflections on Race, Child Development and School Reform
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Now in Bookstores
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Those Who Dared Kick Off NNER Conference
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See article below.
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SDP Newsline
Vol. 1, No. 1October 14, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama to Visit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School in New Orleans
President Barack Obama will visit Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans on Thursday, October 15. Principal and CEO Doris Roche' Hicks said in yesterday's Times-Picayune article about the visit:
"He could have chosen any school," she said of
Obama, "but he did not. He chose us, and it really
feels good that he chose us. I'm excited, I'm
ecstatic, and I know you share in the excitement. We can
hardly wait until Thursday."
To read the article, "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Charter School prepares for ultimate civics lesson: President Obama
visits Thursday," by John Pope, go to http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1255411229313770.xml&coll=1.
After Hurricane Katrina destroyed her school in 2005, Hicks gained nationwide recognition for her role in rebuilding King-the first public school to open in the city's devastated Lower Ninth Ward.
Throughout the 2007-08 school year, Education Week's Lesli A. Maxwell chronicled the rebuilding of MLK in a series of articles, "The View From King," a part of Education Week's special series focusing on education recovery and reform efforts in New Orleans.
Go to http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/nola-king/index.html to read about what Education Week described as a "remarkable story of recovery" that was accomplished "through the force of will and personality of the school's principal, Doris Hicks."
In 1997 in recognition of her outstanding leadership, Yale University awarded Hicks the prestigious Patrick Francis Daly Award for Excellence in Education Leadership. Doris has served as an elementary school principal, area superintendent, teacher, and reading consultant. She has also served as president of the Principal's Association of New Orleans Public Schools, the Louisiana Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the New Orleans Council of the International Reading Association.
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Doris Roche' Hicks Appointed to National Assessment Governing Board
U.S. Secretary of Education
announced that Doris Roché Hicks, principal and CEO of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Charter School in New Orleans was
one of five leaders nationwide appointed to the National Assessment
Governing Board (NAGB) to serve a four-year term that began October 1,
2009.
The National Assessment Governing Board is an
independent, bipartisan board whose members include governors, state
legislators, local and state school officials, educators, business
representatives, and members of the general public. The NAGB helps to
set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP),
commonly known as The Nation's Report Card. The assessment makes
objective information on student performance available to policy makers
and the public at the national, state, and local levels.
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"Those Who Dared" Open the National Network for Educational Renewal's 10th Anniversary Conference
A plenary panel of internationally recognized educational leaders including Dr. Comer, Deborah Meier, John Goodlad, and Henry Levin will provide an inspirational start to the 2009 National Network for Educational Renewal conference in Bellevue, Washington on October 15, 2009. Their comments expanded upon their stories in Those Who Dared: Five Visionaries Who Changed American Education, published in 2009.
Carl Glickman, President of the Institute for Schools, Education, and Democracy and the editor of Those Who Dared, moderated the panel with George Wood, the founder of The Forum for Education and Democracy.
The publisher, Teacher's College Press, notes:
"For decades, practically every major initiative in American education (from top-down standards to the testing movement) has moved decision-making farther away from the school. Throughout their careers, Deborah Meier, John Goodlad, James Comer, Ted Sizer, and Henry Levin have been at the forefront of the fight against this trend, working to give our schools back the ability to educate students in the broadest and richest traditions of activity, inquiry, and problem solving. Now these visionary educators have joined together to share their personal stories of the challenges and triumphs they faced in the classroom, and their ideas of what education can and should be for every student."
To learn more information about the National Network for Educational Renewal, go to www.nnerpartnerships.org.
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Dr. Comer to Address Middle School Success Summit
 On Saturday, Oct. 17th at 8:30 a.m Dr. James P. Comer and Joel I. Klein, chancellor of the NYC Department of Education, will make keynote remarks at the opening session of the second day of the 1st Annual Middle School Summit at the Scholastic Auditorium and World Headquarters in New York.
The summit is sponsored by the NYC Department of Education's Campaign for Middle School Success. Conference participant will receive a copy of Dr. Comer's new book, What I Learned in School: Reflections on Race, Child Development and School Reform.
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Cynthia Savo
Communications Director
School Development Program
Yale Child Study Center
www.schooldevelopmentprogram.org
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