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Improving Student Achievement: Reforms that Work expands on the first volume in the Milken Family Foundation series on education policy, Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement. The series explains to policymakers, parents, business leaders, and teachers the importance of teacher quality in increasing student achievement. This volume is based primarily on the proceedings from the 2004 Milken National Education Conference (NEC), which was held in Washington, D.C., in May 2004.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction; Lewis C. Solmon, Kimberly Firetag Agam and Tamara W. Schiff.
Part I. Improving Student Achievement.
Chapter 1. Improving Student Achievement: Reforms That Work; Lowell Milken, Congressman John A. Boehner, Frank T. Brogan, Councilmember Kevin P. Chavous, Eugene W. Hickok, Senator Mary L. Landrieu and Ted Sanders.
Chapter 2. A Smart Start Strategy for School Reform; Councilmember Kevin P. Chavous.
Part II. State Challenges.
Chapter 3. Critical Challenges Facing State Leaders; Governor Mark Warner and Governor Tim Pawlenty.
Part III. Teacher Quality.
Chapter 4. How States Are Addressing Teacher Quality Issues; Cheryl Fagnano, Jim Horne, Lisa Graham Keegan, Ray Simon and Janice Poda.
Part IV. What It Takes To Make A Performance Pay Plan Work.
Chapter 5. What It Takes to Make a Performance Pay Plan Work; Lewis C. Solmon, Frederick M. Hess, Brad Jupp, Alan Krueger and John Schacter.
Chapter 6. Recognizing Differences; Lewis C. Solmon.
Chapter 7. The Uniform Salary Schedule; Brad Jupp.
Chapter 8. Teacher Quality, Teacher Pay; Frederick M. Hess.
Part V. No Child Left Behind.
Chapter 9. No Child Left Behind; Lewis C. Solmon, Richard Ingersoll, Ken James, Jay Mathews, Nina S. Rees and Susan Tave Zelman.
Chapter 10. The Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) and No Child Left Behind; Lewis C. Solmon.
Chapter 11. Deprofessionalizing the Teaching Profession: The Problem of Out-of-Field Teaching; Richard Ingersoll.
Chapter 12. How No Child Left Behind Helps Principals; Jay Mathews.
Chapter 13. First Steps Toward Standards-Based Education in Ohio; Susan Tave Zelman.
Part VI. What Will My Union Say.
Chapter 14. What Will My Union Say? Joan Baratz-Snowden.
Part VII. Evaluating Reform.
Chapter 15. Planning and Evaluation of Educational Evaluations; Herbert J. Walberg.
Conference Presenters Bios.