Bringing All Students to High Standards: Report on National Education Goals Panel, Field Hearings

摘要

What are the conditions that will help ensure school success. In 2000, the National Education Goals Panel set out to learn. The Panel conducted a series of four field hearings in different regions of the country to find evidence of success and to understand why places were succeeding. As an organization of state and federal policy makers, the Goals Panel was particularly interested in the role that state and district policies play in helping schools succeed. Noted the panels chairman, Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin: Our goal is to make every school a school of excellence and every child a successful learner. Participants at the hearings included students, teachers, parents, principals, superintendents, university presidents, business leaders, school board members, and academic researchers. Among other things, they demonstrated that, despite the drumbeat of negative news about education, there are positive signs across the country that educators and the public are creating successful schools and school systems. They also showed that achieving success does not just happen. It takes concerted effort, over time, by a lot of people. They showed that, in the characteristic American fashion, reformers took quite different paths, even when they pursued common strategies.