MEDIA WATCH: WTF? Everyone -- at 'Education Nation' at least -- knows that Deborah Quazzo is the best person to represent Chicago's public schools in a nationwide TV show. Education Nation chooses corporate propaganda over fact, once again...
Were anyone in Chicago but Rahm Emanuel asked to name 100 or 1,000 teachers, students, union leaders or parents who know Chicago's public schools, the name "Deborah Quazzo" would not come up. Until she was appointed to replace Penny Pritzker by Chicago's mayor in July 2013, Deborah Quazzo was unknown in the work of public education in the nation's third largest city.
Deborah Quazzo at the September 25, 2013 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. Along with five of her colleagues, she voted to rubber stamp the infamous CPS "Facilities Plan" even though she didn't know anything about the city's public schools and could not have located most of them without an expensive GPS. Substance photo by George N. Schmidt.But if the annual "Education Nation" makes any difference, Deborah Quazzo is more important for telling the tale of public education in Chicago than Karen Lewis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union, Barbara Byrd Bennett, current "Chief Executive Officer" of Chicago's public schools, or hundreds of other teachers and scholars who had dealt with the questions of how to do public education in Chicago.
But Deborah Quazzo?
Well, she's the main person from Chicago's public schools listed on the "Education Nation Summit 2013" program for this year. The "Summit" will take place on October 7, 2013.
BELOW IS WHAT THE EDUCATION NATION SUMMIT SAYS:
This year, the fourth annual Education Nation Summit will explore �What It Takes� to get a student through school and ready to succeed in college, career and beyond on Monday, October 7 and Tuesday, October 8. Through individual stories, we will form a collective snapshot of the challenges facing our public education system, as well as some of the real successes being achieved in meeting those challenges. We will examine the lives and aspirations of young people at critical junctures in their academic careers to better understand the resources and supports that students need in order to truly succeed.
We will hear perspectives on �What It Takes� from some of the biggest names in education, politics, business, and entertainment, as well as from those on the front lines of education: the teachers, students, administrators, and parents at our Summit. We�d also like to hear from YOU, and we invite you to submit your ideas for �What It Takes;" you can find instructions here. Some of the "What It Takes" topics that will be covered at the 2013 Summit are:
A Great Start
Active Parenting
Well-Trained Teachers
Safe Schools
Healthy Living
More Than High School: Disrupting Higher Ed
We will be live streaming the following events on EducationNation.com (exact times to be released in the coming weeks): Student Town Hall: Sunday, October 6, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET
Teacher Town Hall: Sunday, October 6, 12 - 2 p.m. ET
2013 Education Nation Summit: Monday, October 7 and Tuesday, October 8, approximately 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Below is a list of confirmed panelists, presenters and interviewees for the 2013 Education Nation Summit. We will be posting details about the Summit agenda and panel times, as well as the names of new panelists on an ongoing basis, so keep checking back here for updates. Anant Agarwal
President, edX
Timothy M. Armstrong
Chairman and CEO, AOL
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
Dean, School of Education, University of Michigan
Melody Barnes
Chair, Forum for Community Solutions & CEO, Melody Barnes Solutions, LLC
Susan Benedetto
Co-Founder and Board President, Exploring the Arts Tony Bennett
Singer and Co-Founder and Board Member, Exploring the Arts
Steve Beshear
Governor of Kentucky Lloyd Blankfein
CEO and Chairman, Goldman Sachs
Michael Bloomberg
Mayor of New York City
Michele Brooks
Assistant Superintendent, Family and Student Engagement, Boston Public Schools
Sean P. �Jack� Buckley
Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics
Syrena Burnam
Science Teacher, North Star Academy Jeb Bush
Former Governor of Florida
Dr. Pamela Cantor
Founder, President and CEO, Turnaround for Children, Inc.
Dr. Meria Joel Carstarphen
Superintendent, Austin Independent School District
David Coleman
President and Chief Executive Officer, The College Board
Ron Conway
Angel Investor
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.
President, Purdue University
Dr. John E. Deasy
Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
Dr. Peter DeWitt
Principal, Poestenkill Elementary School Harriet Dichter
Executive Director, Delaware Office of Early Learning Arne Duncan
U.S. Secretary of Education
Jonah Edelman
Co-Founder and CEO, Stand for Children
Marian Wright Edelman
Founder and President, The Children's Defense Fund Debra Eschmeyer
Co-Founder and VP of External Affairs, FoodCorps
Allyson Felix
Olympic Gold Medalist Jose Ferreira
Founder and CEO, Knewton
Dr. Phil Fisher
Psychologist and Professor, University of Oregon
Goldie Hawn
Actress and Founder and Board Chair, The Hawn Foundation Anne T. Henderson
Author, Beyond the Bake Sale and Senior Consultant, Annenberg Institute for School Reform Dr. William R. Hite, Jr.
Superintendent, School District of Philadelphia Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Caroline Hoxby
Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics, Stanford University
Jay Jefferson
Parent, Coral Gables, FL Bobby Jindal
Governor of Louisiana
Ben Kaufman
Founder and CEO, Quirky David Kirp
Author, Improbable Scholars and Professor of Public Policy, UC-Berkeley Joel Klein
CEO, Amplify Tanisha Kwaaning
Teacher and OneGoal Program Director, Christian Fenger Academy High School
Paul J. LeBlanc
President, Southern New Hampshire University
Jack Markell
Governor of Delaware
Sara Martinez Tucker
CEO, National Math + Science Initiative Dr. Anthony Marx
President and CEO, The New York Public Library
Svante Myrick
Mayor of Ithaca
Paul Pastorek
Former Louisiana State Superintendent of Education and Member Emeritus, Chiefs for Change Deval Patrick
Governor of Massachusetts Mike Pence
Governor of Indiana
Dr. Andre Perry
Founding Dean of Urban Education, Davenport University
Dr. Daniel R. Porterfield
President, Franklin & Marshall College
Deborah Quazzo
Founder and Managing Partner, GSV Advisors
Dr. Irwin Redlener
President and Co-Founder, Children�s Health Fund
Amanda Ripley
Author, The Smartest Kids in the World and TIME Investigative Journalist
Joel Rose
Co-Founder and CEO, New Classrooms Innovation Partners Evelyne Santiago
City Year Corps Member
Dr. William Schmidt
University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University
Jon Schnur
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, America Achieves
David Shapiro
President and CEO, National Mentoring Partnership
M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter, Director and Producer; Author, I Got Schooled
Dr. Joshua P. Starr
Superintendent, Montgomery County Public Schools
Dr. Dana L. Suskind
Director and Founder, Thirty Million Words Program
Diane Tavenner
Founder and CEO, Summit Public Schools Brenda Van Gorder
Director of Preschool Services, Granite School District
Dennis Van Roekel
President, National Education Association Dennis Walcott
Chancellor, New York City Department of Education Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers Robert Wrubel
Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Vice President, Apollo Group
