School Choice: Meet the Experts

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Critical Issues in Urban Education

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The University of Chicago

Critical Issues in Urban Education

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Urban school reform in the United States is characterized by contentious, politicized debate. This course explores a set of critical issues in the education and educational reform space, with a focus on aspects of the field that have sparked controversy and polarized views. We will dig into these debates, situating them within the larger history of public education and school reform, and considering the viewpoints, the evidence, and translation of issues into educational policy. We will consider three broad topics in this course: 1. Federal Strategies in School Reform: How has the federal government legislated and incented public school reform? 2. School Choice: How does school choice aim to improve schools? 3. Accountability: What is the history of accountability in American public schooling? What are the policies and practices associated with accountability? Learning Goals This course will enable participants to: 1. develop an informed historical perspective about public schooling in the United States; 2. understand the unique contextual elements of the American approach to public schooling; 3. analyze and assess divergent viewpoints about American public school history and school reform policy. Teachers may be able to receive continuing education credit for successful completion of this course. To earn continuing education credits students must purchase and earn the Course Certificate, which they can then submit to the credit-issuing agency in their state. Students should also fill out the requisite paperwork stating that the affiliated provider is the Graham School at the University of Chicago, and that average time for certificate-level course completion is 18 hours. Students outside of Illinois should contact their state’s accreditation board to determine whether this course is eligible for continuing education credit. Note that it is up to the schools or districts that employ teachers to decide whether this course meet their requirements.

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Interlude 2: Interview and Panel Discussion on School Choice and Charter Schools

We had the pleasure of interviewing several experts in the education space from around Chicago and the Urban Education Institute. Listen as they discuss issues surrounding School Choice and Charter Schools. They will have a variety of perspectives from that of a researcher to a practitioner. Which do you identify with? Did any of the participants resonate with you?

School Choice: Meet the Experts5:39

The School Choice Debate Interviews11:23

School Choice Interviews: Charter Schools12:42

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Sara Ray Stoelinga
Sara Liston Spurlark Director and Clinical Professor
Urban Education Institute

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Hi I'm Orrin Murray.

I'm the Director of Technology and R&D at U Chicago Impact.

And part of what I do there is to

help the organization think about scaling projects and

services that are designed to improve education across the country.

>> I'm Elaine Allensworth, I'm the Director of the University of

Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.

Our mission is to inform reform in the Chicago public schools

by doing research that informs policy and practice in Chicago, and

also in districts across the county.

>> Hi, my name is John Easton, I work at the Spencer Foundation here in Chicago.

I'm a distinguished senior fellow there at the foundation.

Spencer is the only foundation in this country that's exclusively devoted to

supporting education research.

My whole career I've worked in education research.

I was formerly the director of the Institute of Education Sciences in

the US Department of Education.

And before that I was the Director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research

here at the University of Chicago.

>> My name is Darren Reisberg.

I currently serve as the Secretary of the University at the University of Chicago,

where I've been since April of 2014.

Prior to that and beginning in June of 2012 I was the Executive Director

at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.

And prior to that, and since around 2005,

was at the Illinois State Board of Education,

most recently in the role of General Counsel and Deputy State Superintendent.

>> Hi, I'm Sue Sporty.

I'm Director of Research Operations at the Consortium on Chicago School Research

at University of Chicago.

My main research interests have been either on

how schools structure themselves for improvement or

on human capital, how teachers are prepared or evaluated.

At the consortium, we study a whole lot,

a wide range of activities dealing with school reform, student outcomes,

human capital investments, a whole wide range of things.

It's a great place to work.

We learn a lot from each other.

>> I'm Bill Olsen, and I'm the senior director in charge of

teacher education and our charter school initiatives.

I'm responsible for working with the urban teacher

education program, and our University of Chicago charter schools.

We have two elementary, two middle, and

a high school campus under one school and

I'm this is my 20th year of serving Chicago students.

I taught for ten years and

I was a high school principal at Noble Street College Prep for nine years.

I'm Timothy Knowles, and I direct the Urban Education Institute.

We do four main things.

We train teachers for urban schools.

We operate schools serving children from across the south side of Chicago.

We do applied research really geared to informing practitioners and

policy makers about what matters most.

And we take what we learn and we distribute it across the country

to teachers, school leaders, superintendents, mayors,

governors in an effort to improve the quality of American schooling at scale.

>> Hi, I'm Tanika Island,

the Interim Director of the UTEP program >> The UTEP program

is a free service program for folks that are interested in becoming teachers.

So we develop teachers to teach on the south and west sides of Chicago.

It is a five year program and we are happy that our program offers a year of

residency along with a year of foundations and then we also will support our

teachers once they land in their teaching careers with three years of coaching.

>> My name is Shane Evans,

I'm the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Chicago Charter School.

We have one mission at the University of Chicago Charter, which is to prepare 100%

of our students for acceptance to and graduation from college, through a pre-K

to 12th grade super highway, which cultivates critical thinkers and leaders.

Basically what we do there is prove what's probable on the south side of Chicago and

try to eliminate what we like to call a belief gap, the lack of belief that

all the young people we serve have the capacity to be supremely intelligent.

>> I'm Audrey Soglin.

I'm the Executive Director of the Illinois Education Association,

which is part of the National Education Association, the NEA.

I taught for 25 years prior to having this job.

And prior to this work I ran a non for

profit that's called the Consortium for Educational Change.

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