Child Policy Initiative Continues Speaker Series on March 4: Harvard Professor Addresses Growing Focus on School Improvement, Accountability
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

ATLANTA – Dr. Richard Elmore, professor of educational leadership at Harvard University, will present The Practice of School Improvement, the third lecture in the 2004 Child Policy Speaker Series. The series is sponsored by the Child Policy Initiative.

Dr. Elmore has said: “Unfortunately, schools and school systems were not designed to respond to the pressure for performance that standards and accountability bring, and their failure to translate this pressure into useful and fulfilling work for students and adults is dangerous to the future of public education.”

The program is scheduled for Wednesday, March 4, 2004, at 3:30 p.m. at 229 Aderhold Learning Center, located at 60 Luckie Street in downtown Atlanta.

Located in the Georgia Health Policy Center of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, the Child Policy Initiative works to improve the quality of child policy in Georgia through the skillful application of current research and analysis.

For more information, visit www. andrewyoungschool.org, health policy link
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• Child Policy Speaker Series, sponsored by the Child Policy Initiative at Georgia State University
• Wednesday, March 4, 2004 at 3:30 p.m.
• 229 Aderhold Learning Center, 60 Luckie Street in downtown Atlanta
• Dr. Richard Elmore, professor of educational leadership at Harvard University, will present The Practice of School Improvement.

CONTACT:
Martha Nunez, Child Policy Initiative
404.463.9563
marthanu@gsu.edu