Academic Forum: "Living the Legacy"

January 30. 2007 1-5p.m.

Welcome: Susan Fuhrman

Introduction

Lee Shulman
President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Shulman is a past president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and past president of the National Academy of Education.

Panel One: Promoting the Highest Quality Research

Presenters

Edmund W. Gordon
Founder and director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College. Gordon is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University and Richard March Hoe Professor of Psychology and Education Emeritus at Teachers College.

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
The Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and former dean. Lagemann has been president of the Spencer Foundation and the National Academy of Education.

Andrew Porter
The Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy and director of the Learning Sciences Institute at Vanderbilt University.He is a member of the National Academy of Education and a past president of the American Educational Research Association.

Moderator

Aaron Pallas
Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Pallas' research interests include the social organization of schools, educational stratification, school effects and effectiveness, sociology of the life course, and research methodology.

Panel Two: Influencing Policy and Practice

Panelists

Pascal D. Forgione, Jr.
Superintendent of the Austin School District. Prior to this position, Forgione was the U.S. Commissioner of Education Statistics with the National Center for Education Statistics and headed the U.S. Department of Education's National Education Goals Panel.

Patricia A. Graham
A historian of education and Professor Emerita at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Graham served as the director of the National Institute of Education and is a past president of the Spencer Foundation.

Sharon Lynn Kagan
The Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy, Co-Director of the National Center for Children and Families, and Associate Dean for Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University and Professor Adjunct at the Yale Child Study Center. She is also past president of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

Moderator

Lucy Calkins
The Richard Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College, where she directs the Literacy Specialist Program. She is also the Founding Director of The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project.