Value Added Measures: Implications for Policy and Practice

Friday May 23, 2008
8:00am - Noon
The Urban Institute

Link to a full schedule of the day's events here.

Audio and panelists' presentations are linked below.

Opening Remarks

• Jane Hannaway
  • audio

Introduction

• Adam Gamoran
  • audio

Explanation of Proceedings

• Jane Hannaway
  • audio

Down from the Tower:
Research Perspectives on Value Added Measurement and Its Uses

• Doug Harris, University of Wisconsin — Madison
  • powerpoint
  • audio
• Tony Bryk, Stanford University & the Carnegie Foundation
  
  • powerpoint
  • audio
• Dan McCaffrey, RAND
  • powerpoint
  • audio
• Discussion session
  • audio

Policy Players:
The Politics of Value Added Measures

• Leo Casey, United Federation of Teachers
  • powerpoint
  • audio
• Robert Gordon, Center for American Progress
  
  • powerpoint
    
  • audio
• Ross Wiener, EdTrust
  • powerpoint
  • audio
• Discussion session
  • audio

Concluding Comments

• Rick Hanushek, CALDER--Stanford University
  
  • powerpoint
  • audio