George H. Wood discusses U.S. public education policy and school reform. Topics include: closing the achievement gap, facilitating teachers’ success, and ESEA reauthorization.

Hilary O. Shelton, Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy, NAACP addresses school reform and U.S. public education policy.  Topics include: closing the achievement gap, facilitating teachers’ success, and ESEA reauthorization.

Ronald Blackburn Moreno discusses U.S. public education policy and school reform. Topics include: closing the achievement gap, facilitating teachers’ success, and ESEA reauthorization.

David Johns discusses U.S. public education policy and school reform. Topics include: closing the achievement gap, facilitating teachers’ success, and ESEA reauthorization.

LaRuth Gray discusses U.S. public education policy and school reform. Topics include: closing the achievement gap, facilitating teachers’ success, and ESEA reauthorization.

Sam Chaltain, National Director of the Forum for Education and Democracy, discusses quality learning environments for the U.S. public schools system, education reform and the "Re-think Learning Now" Campaign.

Deborah Meier, Senior Scholar & Adjunct Professor, NYU, discusses the importance of the sense of community in U.S. public schools, education reforms and creating a better form of academic assessment at the Beyond Standardized Tests Conference in Washington, D.C.

Roytel Montero, Student at Fenway High School, discusses the personal, professional and academic empowerment gained through teachers and U.S. public education at Fenway High School at the Beyond Standardized Tests Conference in Washington, D.C.

Chantale Soekhoe, Recent Graduate from Hunter College, discusses her experience at the Urban Academy developing learning skills and discovering the benefits of real education without standardized assessments. When students fail school tests, we need to ask the question, “Are the tests failing the student?”

Jenerra Williams, Teacher at Mission Hill School in Boston, Mass., discusses her experience as a teacher at a U.S. public school and how their culture of learning improves the quality of education.