Shadow

EdWeek hosted an on-line chat forum on educational policy.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Changing Role of the U.S. Department of Education

Oct. 18, 2006

Guest: Christopher T. Cross, author of Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age and former assistant secretary for educational research and improvement under President George H.W. Bush.

Rebekah Lewis (Moderator):

    Welcome to today’s online chat on how the federal role in education has changed over the past 25 years, and how that role might evolve in the future. Today, federal involvement in education includes specific programs, such as Reading First and the No Child Left Behind Act, and also influences broader issues like teacher education, closing the achievement gap, and education funding. We’ve already received many questions on these and other topics for our guest, so let’s get started!

 

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 11:54 am and is filed under Teaching, Education. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Edit this entry.