“How School Boards Can Help Improve Student Achievement.”
November 18, 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., EST
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About this chat: What role do school boards play in increasing student achievement? How do “high functioning boards” go about their work? Nancy Walser will answer these questions and others during a chat about her new book, The Essential School Board Book: Better Governance in the Age of Accountability.
About Nancy Walser: Nancy Walser is assistant editor of the award-winning Harvard Education Letter. For more than ten years, she worked as a newspaper journalist, covering education and other beats for many local, regional, and national publications, including States News Service in Washington, D.C., the Quincy (mass.) Patriot Ledger, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. She is the author of The Essential School Board Book (Harvard Education Press, 2009) and the coeditor of Spotlight on Leadership and School Change (Harvard Education Press, 2007) and Spotlight on Student Engagement, Motivation, and Achievement (Harvard Education Press, 2009).
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