NY Times Schools For Tomorrow Conference

For those who are not attending today's NY Times Schools For Tomorrow event, it is streaming live all day on their website: http://nytschoolsfortomorrow.com/

Topics being covered include:

• Perspectives on education issues from the campaign trail

• Global overview - Canada, Australia, Finland, Singapore

• Economics metrics of education in the U.S. compared to abroad

• How to increase the status and perception of the profession and attract top talent

• Teacher salaries & merit-based pay

• Measuring teacher performance

• Role of teachers' unions

• Chicago teachers' strike

• Influence of Teach For America

• Role of federal/local government in educational reform

• Future of education

• Building support structures - school mentorship, teacher-training programs, and supporting teachers to deliver better instruction

• Changing role of the teacher

Highlights include:

• David Brooks as moderator

• Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University Professor of Education

• Kaya Henderson, Chancellor of the D.C. Public School System (successor to Michelle Rhee)

• Keynote address by Aneesh Chopra, former Chief Technology Officer for the U.S.

• Remarks from Chancellor Dennis Walcott

If teaching, in the words of Linda Darling-Hammond, is "the profession on which all other professions depend," today's subject of how to improve that profession makes for a meaningful and worthwhile conversation.