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What if the key to breakthrough school improvement is not mandating complicated new solutions built on an elusive combination of standards, pedagogical practices, and assessment, but rather dislodging entrenched bureaucratic barriers and rethinking restrictive education norms entirely? What if the system is the problem? What if we were free to
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start from scratch?
In ASCD's February book of the month, Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling (2010), Frederick M. Hess, a resident scholar and the director of education studies at AEI, explored those questions and mapped out a "greenfield" approach to schooling that seeks to create conditions where outstanding teaching and learning can flourish. Greenfield schooling requires scrubbing away our assumptions about districts, schoolhouses, teacher training, and other familiar arrangements, so we might use resources, talent, and technology to support excellent teaching and effective learning in smarter, better ways.
| 3:45 p.m. | Registration | |
| 4:00 | Introduction: | Christopher DeMuth, AEI |
| Gene Carter, ASCD | ||
| 4:15 | Presentation: | Frederick M. Hess, AEI |
| 5:30 | Adjournment and Reception | |
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Gene R. Carter is executive director and chief executive officer of ASCD, an international professional development association with affiliates in Canada, the Caribbean, East Asia, and the United States. In 1991, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Teachers College at Columbia University. He was also selected the first National Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators. He has written widely and is coauthor with William Cunningham of The American School Superintendent: Leading in an Age of Pressure (Jossey-Bass, 1997). Mr. Carter joined the Columbia University’s Teachers College Board of Trustees in 2008. He also serves on the advisory committees of the America-Israel Friendship League Education and for the Old Dominion University College of Education; he is a member of the boards of the America Frontier Culture Foundation and the Norfolk Southern Corporation.
Christopher DeMuth is D. C. Searle Senior Fellow at AEI. He was president of AEI from December 1986 through December 2008. Previously, he was administrator for information and regulatory affairs in the Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration; he taught economics, law, and regulatory policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; he has practiced regulatory, antitrust, and general corporate law; and he worked on urban and environmental policy in the Nixon White House.
Frederick M. Hess is a resident scholar and the director of education policy studies at AEI, executive editor of Education Next, and author of the Education Week blog "Rick Hess Straight Up." His many books include Education Unbound (ASCD, 2010), Common Sense School Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Revolution at the Margins (Brookings Institution Press, 2002), and Spinning Wheels (Brookings Institution Press, 1998). His work appears in scholarly and more popular outlets, such as Teachers College Record, Harvard Education Review, Social Science Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. News and World Report, Washington Post, and National Review. He serves on the review board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education and on the boards of directors for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and the American Board for the Certification of Teaching Excellence. A former high school social studies teacher, Hess teaches or has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Rice University, and Harvard University.
