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• Keynote
• Jonah Edelman
• Executive Director
• Stand for Children

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India, China, Other Developing Countries
producing large numbers of young people with top
mathematics and analytical skills Professionals
available on the world market in a wide range of
fields for a fraction of what U.S. professionals
charge
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Core Challenges for U.S. Workers

• High, medium, and low skill U.S. workers are
  being underbid by workers in lower cost countries
• Automation continuing to replace routine work
• American standard of living at stake

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Successful Work in U.S. is High Concept or
High Touch
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Profile of Successful U.S. Workers

• Strong in core subjects
• Creative and innovative
• Able to learn quickly
• Strong interpersonally
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Proactive and Persistent

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Imperatives for U.S. Schools

• More rigor in core subjects
• Move beyond emphasis on memory and right answers
  and basic analysis
• Help children learn to be creative, synthesize
  information, take initiative, solve problems in a
  practical way, work effectively in teams, manage
  projects
• Help young people figure out what intrinsically
  motivates them and aligns with their strengths

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New York States Many Strengths

• Above Average NAEP Scores Overall
• Near the top for students not eligible for
  Free/Reduced Price Lunch program
• Top third for students who are eligible for FRPL
• Narrowing achievement gap
• High AP participation
• Rigorous state standards and exit exam

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Challenge Graduation Rates
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Challenge College Preparation

• 2002 New York State
• College Readiness Rate
• Overall 32 (national average 34)
• Hispanic Students 11
• African-American Students 21
• White Students 43
• Source Manhattan Institute Education Working
  Paper No. 8 2005

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Keys to Progress

• Updated Standards and Curriculum
• Authentic Assessment
• Smarter Accountability
• More Support for Struggling Students
• Improved Instructional Quality

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The Blunt Truth

• A Good Education is a Civil Right
• Teaching is a Privilege that is currently treated
  like a Right.

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Window of Opportunity

• 1.8 billion school aid increase promise of 4.4
  billion more Foundation Aid by 2010-11
• Review of state learning standards
• SED to develop growth model/value added
  accountability system
• Governor willing to stand up to unions
• Manny Rivera, Deputy Secretary to Governor for
  Education

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Take Advantage

• Advocate Strategically
• Bargain Hard
• Communicate Effectively
• Draw a Line in the Sand on
• Teacher Quality

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Advocate

• Governor and Legislature keep your promise of
  aid
• Updated, fewer standards
• Value added assessment, then
• Performance pay based on data and qualitative
  evaluation
• Greater accountability to teacher education
  programs
• Streamlined teacher dismissal, starting with
  NYSBAs Section 3020-a reform
• Expanded alternative teacher certification
  programs
• Reform of the Triboro law
• Continued expansion of the state pre-k program

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Advocate

• You are tremendously effective
• Parents are, too
• Build a District-wide Parent Action Team with 2
  Coordinators and Minimum of 10 Parents in each
  school

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Bargain Hard

• For Expanded Staff and Student Support vs. Wage
  and Benefit Increases
• More Instructional Time
• Better Mentoring Programs
• End Seniority-Based Teacher Assignment

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Communicate Effectively

• Messages
• Global Challenge Must Do Business Differently
• Were Keeping the Promise, Delivering Results
• Collective Bargain Contract is Challenge
• Media
• Beefed up Email Communication
• Regular Op-Eds
• Talks to Key Groups
• Radio and TV Programs
• Annual Report to Community (Reliable Voters)

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Draw a Line in the Sand on Teacher Quality

• Rigorously Evaluate Every Probationary Teacher
  No C, D, or F Teachers Get Tenure
• Aggressively Evaluate Mediocre Tenured Teachers
• Push Principals and Union to More Aggressively
  Counsel Out Mediocre Teachers

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