Participants:

Moderator:
Thomas Toch
Co-Director
Education Sector

Sen. Jeff Bingaman
U.S. Senator
State of New Mexico

Shirley Bloomfield
Senior Vice President
of Federal Relations
Qwest

Eli Broad
Founder
The Broad Foundations

Dr. Barbara
Byrd-Bennett
Cleveland State
University

Mike Feinberg
Co-Founder
KIPP

Chris Gabrieli
Chairman
Massachusetts 2020
Foundation

Walter Isaacson
CEO
Aspen Institute

Paula Prahl
Sr. Vice President,
Communications,
Public Affairs and
Corporate
Responsibility
Best Buy

Gov. Roy Romer
Chairman
ED in '08

John Schnur
CEO & Founder
New Leaders for
New Schools

John Wilson
Executive Director
National Education
Association

2008 Education Roundtable

Monday, August 25, 2008
9:30 am – 11:30 am

Space Theatre
Denver Performing Arts Complex

Moderator: Tom Toch
Participants: Sen. Bingaman, Shirley Bloomfield, Eli Broad, Dr. Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Mike Feinberg, Chris Gabrieli, Walter Isaacson, Paula Prahl, Gov. Roy Romer, John Schnur, John Wilson

The 2008 Education Roundtable is designed as a discussion among ten to twelve participants. A facilitator will lead the Roundtable, encouraging a dynamic, substantive interchange among the participants. Seated in a venue with a capacity for 550 persons, the audience for the Education Roundtable will include individuals with a particular interest in the subject of K-12 education.

Roundtable Focus

American 15-year-olds are significantly below average in math and science. Out of 30 countries participating in the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment, America’s 15-year-olds ranked 25th in math and 21st in science. Meanwhile, more than 1.2 million students drop out of school every year. That’s more than 6,000 students every school day and one student every 26 seconds. At the post-secondary level, more than one in three college freshmen enroll in at least one remedial course to catch up on skills they should have learned in high school. This figure rises to 42 percent in the nation’s community colleges.

Clearly, American schools must make a change. Solutions may lie in:


Tickets


To purchase tickets to the Roundtables, go to Denver Center Ticketing Services.

Email ticketing questions to: Julie Winkel, 2008rmr@gmail.com.


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