Harold W. McGraw Jr. Seminar for Reporters New to the Education Beat

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1 Harold W. McGraw Jr. Seminar for Reporters New to the Education Beat Teachers College, Columbia University July 17-19, 2009 New York City

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3 The Hechinger Institute exists to equip journalists with the knowledge and skills they need to produce fair, accurate and insightful reporting. Since its launch in 1996, the Institute has sponsored close to 100 Seminars for journalists who write, editorialize or edit coverage of education. More than 2,000 journalists have attended Hechinger Institute seminars, which feature top education experts from around the world. The Seminars, held throughout the country, are designed to encourage a casual and informative exchange between journalists and educators. The Institute also produces Primers and other publications on timely topics in education, from covering school district leadership to understanding teachers unions. The Institute maintains a website with resources related to Seminar topics along with a blog on early childhood issues. In addition, the Institute sponsors Fellowships designed to encourage and promote in-depth coverage of community colleges and of teaching in K-12 schools by reporters working in print, broadcast or online. The Hechinger Institute's director is Richard Lee Colvin, the former lead education writer for the Los Angeles Times who spent much of his career writing about education for newspapers in California. The associate director is Liz Willen, a former education writer for New York Newsday and Bloomberg News. Barbara Kantrowitz, a longtime editor and columnist for Newsweek, is the Institute s staff editor. The Institute is supported by a variety of private philanthropies, including the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Joyce Foundation, The Kauffman Foundation, The Spencer Foundation, Harold W. McGraw Jr., chairman emeritus of the McGraw-Hill Companies, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is named in memory of Fred M. Hechinger, a former education editor of the New York Times and a trustee of Teachers College.

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5 Friday, July 17 th Harold W. McGraw Jr. Seminar for Reporters New to the Education Beat July 17-19, 2009 Teachers College, Columbia University New York City 11:00 am Optional Multimedia Training at CUNY 219 W. 40th Street New York, NY Sandeep Junnarkar CUNY Graduate School of Journalism 3:30 pm Coffee and Welcome Grace Dodge Hall room 179 (GDH179) 4:00 Challenge to the Status Quo: How Entrepreneurs are Changing Public Education Richard Barth Fredrick Hess KIPP Academy American Enterprise Institute 5:15 How to Interview Children: Tips & Techniques Donna Gaffney International Trauma Studies Program 6:00 Cocktails & Conversation 6:30 Dinner 7:15 Obama s Education Agenda: An Education Outsider s View of the Inside Jon Schnur New Leaders for New Schools 8:30 Adjourn for the Evening

6 Saturday, July 18 th 8:30 am Continental Breakfast 9:00 The New Birth to 5 Education Agenda Cornelia Grumman First Five Years Fund 10:15 The Stimulus, the Classroom and Common Assessments: What will new money and requirements mean for states and schools? Charles Barone Sandy Boyd Cary Cuiccio John White Democrats for Education Reform Achieve Learning Points Associates U.S. Department of Education 11:15 Break 11:30 Workshop 12:45 pm Lunch 1:45 Leadership, Research and Blogging: New Ways to Tell Inspirational Education Stories Kent Fischer Paul Tough Bill Turque The Dallas Morning News New York Times Washington Post 3:00 Reporter Roundtables: Group Mentoring/Discussions 4:30 Adjourn Dinner and evening on your own

7 Sunday, July 19 th 9:00 am Buffet Brunch 9:30 Improving the Learning of Adults: Issues and Stories Lennox McLendon Pamela Tate National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium, Inc. The Council for Adult & Experiential Learning 10:45 Superintendents Speak Out: Money, Leadership and Stimulus Challenges Andres Alonso Constance Clark-Snead Robert Copeland Jose M. Torres Baltimore City Public Schools Westbury Public Schools Piscataway Public Schools School District U-46, Illinois 12:00 pm Seminar Evaluation 12:30 Seminar Concludes This Seminar is made possible by an endowment from Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Additional support comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Texas Instruments Education Technology Division, The Spencer Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, the Kauffman Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and the American Institutes for Research

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