11/17/2008 ~ 11/18/2008 at  Cowin Center, Teachers College

• Larry Aber
  NYU Steinhardt School Culture, Education, and Human Development
• Whitney Allgood (co-author)
  Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Chuck Basch
  Columbia University
• Tony Blair
  
• Martin Blank
  Coalition for Community Schools, Institute for Educational Leadership
• Charles Brecher
  Citizens Budget Commission
• Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Geoffrey Canada
  Harlem Children’s Zone
• Lori Connors-Tadros
  The Finance Project
• Arne Duncan
  Chicago Public Schools
• Howard Everson
  Fordham University
• Lucy Friedman
  The After-School Corporation
• Susan Fuhrman
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Edmund Gordon
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Carl Hayden
  Chemung County School Readiness Project
• Randi Hewit
  Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes
• Julie Higson
  ContinYou (UK)
• Sharon Lynn Kagan
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Helen Ladd
  Duke University
• Henry Levin
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Roger Maldonado
  Balber Pickard Maldonado & Van der Tuin
• Milbrey McLaughlin
  Stanford University
• Larry Mishel
  Economic Policy Institute
• Pedro Noguera
  NYU Steinhardt School Culture, Education, and Human Development
• Gov. David Paterson
  State of New York
• Jane Quinn
  Children’s Aid Society
• Michael Rebell
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Roberto Rodriguez
  Office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy
• Richard Rothstein
  Economic Policy Institute
• Torey Silloway
  The Finance Project
• Paul Tough
  New York Times Magazine
• Randi Weingarten
  American Federation of Teachers
• Heather Weiss
  Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Tamara Wilder (co-author)
  University of Michigan
• Jay Worona
  New York State School Boards Association

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