Education Summit 2011

PLENARY SESSION I

Panel:

A Discussion with Dr. Edmund W. Gordon. Neighborhoods of Promise: Home, Community and School

Panelists

Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, Co-founder, The CEJJES Institute

Professor Edmund W. Gordon is the Richard March Hoe Professor of Psychology and Education emeritus and Director of the Institute of Urban and Minority Education, (IUME), at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he also served as Interim Dean from 2000 to 2001. Professor Gordon is also the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University, and he is Senior Scholar in Residence at the College Board. In 2004, The Educational Testing Service created the Edmund W. Gordon Chair in Evaluation, Research and Policy in his honor. In 2005, Columbia University named its facility in Harlem the Edmund W. Gordon Campus of Teachers College.

James Montesano,Superintendent of Nyack Schools.

Judith Johnson, Retired Superintendent of the Peekskill City School and former Acting Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education under President Bill Clinton.

Judith Johnson - 2011 Advocacy Breakfast

Angela Glover Blackwell with Tavis Smiley

PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell talks about the work of the Harlem Children's Zone at the 'Changing the Odds' Conference in November of 2009.

Angela Glover Blackwell speaks at the 'Changing the Odds' Conference from PolicyLink on Vimeo.