June 2 Education Action Summit
"Education Advocacy in the Stimulus Era: Strengthening Resource Equity and Opportunities to Learn for all Students in Public School"
Harrisburg, Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Education leaders throughout Pennsylvania shared their experience, knowledge and strategies about the best ways to improve public schools for disadvantaged students and communities.
More than 100 education leaders — from Donna Cooper, Secretary of Policy and Planning for Governor Ed Rendell, to parent advocate Melissa Allen — spent the day on June 2 creating a foundation for students, parents, educators, and grassroots organizations throughout the state to work more closely together in 2009-10 developing improved opportunities to learn for all children.
The following resources and web links provide a good place to start learning more about strengthening resource equity and opportunities to learn for disadvantaged students in Pennsylvania public schools.
The literature on OTL itself is somewhat out of date, and even the phrase “OTL” went out of style when No Child Left Behind was adopted. But it is worthwhile to look back on some of the original OTL literature. And there are many resources available on each of the OTL Components — Parent and Community Involvement; Teacher Quality; Curriculum and Learning Tools and Processes; Student Supports and Interventions; Adequate Funding. We will continue adding to this resource toolkit.
Opportunity to Learn (general, historical, legal and research resources)
- Education Trust: Reports and analysis on many OTL issues
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind), Title I – Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged
- National Center on Educational Outcomes, Opportunity-to-learn standards [summary] (1994)
- National Center on Educational Outcomes, Opportunity-to-learn standards [report], (1994)
- National Center for Education Statistics, “Appendix A - Review of the Literature on Opportunities to Learn”, from Paving the Way to Postsecondary Education: K-12 Intervention Programs for Underrepresented Youth Report of the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative Working Group on Access to Postsecondary Education (2001)
- Schott Foundation for Public Education, Lost Opportunity: A 50 State Report on the Opportunity to Learn in America (2009)
- U.S. Dept. of Education, A Nation At Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform (1983)
- U.S. Dept. of Education, Goals 2000 Legislation and Related Items (1994)
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
FUNDING
- Center for American Progress, Ensuring Equal Opportunity in Public Education: How Local School District Funding Practices Hurt Disadvantaged Students and What Federal Policy Can Do About It (2008)
- Pennsylvania State Board of Education, Costing-out Study of 2007
PARENT AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Education Trust, Guides to Help African-American and Latino Parents Improve Their Children's Education
- Harvard Family Research Project, Family Involvement Publications and Resources
- National Network of Partnership Schools, Johns Hopkins University
TEACHER QUALITY
- Center for American Progress, Teacher Turnover, Tenure Policies, and the Distribution of Teacher Quality: Can High-Poverty Schools Catch a Break? (2008)
- National Council on Teacher Quality, Teacher Quality Yearbook: What States Can Do To Retain Effective New Teachers (2008)
- Research for Action, Closing the Teacher Quality Gap in Philadelphia: New Hope and Old Hurdles (2007)
STATE RESOURCES
- Pennsylvania Department of Education, School Improvement and Planning
- Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network
Summit Handouts
- Summary and Analysis of Public Education Provisions in the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- The Social and Economic Benefits of Public Education: Summary
- Costing-out the Resources Needed to Meet Pennsylvania's Education Goals for Students with Disabilities
- School-wide Postive Behavior Support: Executive Summary
- Frequently Asked Questions About the Keystone Exam Proposal