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Education Week Forum: Powering Through the Recession

by Susan Ohanian

A full-page ad in Education Week, April 22, 2009 should remind readers of where this organization's bread is buttered. Actually, in addition to the ad on page 27, the whole issue is encased in a shiny cover announcing the Powering the Recession "Leadership Forum" forum on front and back--and on inside pages front and back: This amounts to five full pages of ads describing the wonders of this event.

Here's the full title of this event: Powering through the Recession: Strategies for District Leaders to Keep Student Achievement on Track.

You have to go to the website to find out the cost:
Register today to guarantee your seat at the table with the nation’s leading school district leaders.

Prices:
Early-bird registration (extended until April 20, 2009): $295.00 [Since my issue arrived in the mail on 4/29/09, it would be difficult for me to get the early-bird special.]

Regular Registration (through May 7, 2009): $395.00

On-Site Registration: $495.00

Not for the weak of purse. But if you register now you can bring a colleague for free.

Here are the "education thought-leaders" [sic] listed as participating in the forums. You can google them on this site.



• Joel Klein, Chancellor, New York City


• Ramon Cortines, Superintendent, Los Angeles


• Maria L. Goodloe-Johnson, Superintendent, Seattle


• Arlene Ackerman, Superintendent Philadelphia


• Paul Vallas, Superintendent, Louisiana Recovery School District (But don't forget what he did in Chicago and Philadelphia.


• Carlos Garcia, Superintendent, San Francisco


Other confirmed participants: Clifford B. Janey, Daniel A. Domenech, Allan R. Odden, Dana Egreczkyk Pedro Martinez, Marguerite Roza, James R. Carlson, Lawrence O. Picus.

Where's Michelle?

This forum is sponsored by:
Blackboard K-12, SMART, Moodle rooms, CTB McGraw-Hill, Scientific Learning, Fast Forword, Cambium Learning, Kaplan, STN Alert, Mimio, Scantron, Lexia, School Messenger

The "Agenda of Power-Packed Sessions" [sic] include:


• Human Capital in Education: Key Speaker:
• Walk the Line: Maximizing Human Capital: panel moderated by Education Week assistant managing editor


• Leveraging the Stimulus: How to Turn One-Time Federal Stimulus Dollars into Lasting Benefits


• The Fierce Urgency of Recession: How and What to Cut


• Tapping Fresh Wells: Identifying and Establishing Enduring Streams of Outside Funding
  Kevin Hall, Chief Operating Officer, The Broad Foundation, is on the panel.
  
  

  — Susan Ohanian
  Report on Education Week Forum
  2009-04-29
  

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