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Mind the Gap: New Views on Ensuring All Students Reach Their Full Potential
Please cite as: Proceedings of ACR National Policy Forum, September 8 2005, Academy for Educational Development, Washington DC. Online at http://www.acr.uc.edu/journal.html
Sponsored by:
Alliance for Curriculum Reform (ACR) and the Academy for Educational Development
(AED)
Overarching Goals for the day:
We have organized a diverse group of individuals with a variety of perspectives for a full day of interactive discussion and exploration of some very difficult challenges.
We seek to identify common and complementary action items that may serve as levers for change, working to ensure a coherent, comprehensive and balanced curriculum* for all students, with high standards and expectations for learning, supported by quality teaching.
Constructive educational change is ultimately too complex to make the widespread progress desired without simultaneously addressing the issues and needs from many angles, through the contributions of many stakeholders.
We hope that these Forums will serve as a catalyst and connection that will motivate leaders and organizations to act in the interest of education and all children. We believe that such action will be most effective if it is interactive in multiple arenas and if it includes multiple perspectives: K12 education, higher education, research, business, policy, charitable organizations, media, and civic groups.
* By a “coherent, comprehensive, and balanced” curriculum ACR means, in general, curricula that are planned and supported to provide a high-quality education for all children, coherently and appropriately connected among and within subjects and content areas and across grade levels. It is ACR’s belief that no learner’s potential should be limited by the curriculum, its delivery, and/or educational opportunities that are made available to the learner.