What's Gone Wrong In America's Classrooms? And How to Fix It

February 24, 1997 - February 25, 1997
Stauffer Auditorium Herbert Hoover Memorial Building Stanford University

• Agenda

Identifies key failures in modern American education and then show how parents, policymakers, and teachers can make changes that will raise the level of student performance

Agenda

1:15 PM	Fundamental Issues
	Williamson Evers- From Progressive Education to Discovery Learning
	John R. Anderson- Cognitive Psychology and Instruction
	Bonnie Grossen- Research- Based Educational Reform

3:15 PM	Core Subjects
	Jack M. Fletcher- Reading: A Scientific Approach
	Louisa Cook Moats- Language Structure and Teaching Spelling
	Harold Stevenson- Teaching Math
5:00 PM	Sessions close
6:30 PM	Reception and Dinner
	Speaker: Jaime Escalante- Stand and Deliver