Welcome and Overview

Marc Tucker,
President and CEO,
National Center on Education and the Economy

Keynote

Arne Duncan,
U.S. Secretary of Education

The People

Moderator
John Merrow,
Education Correspondent,
PBS NewsHour; President, Learning Matters

Panelists
Mari Koerner,
Dean, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University

Vivien Stewart,
Senior Advisor for Education and Chair of the Asia Society Confucius Classrooms Initiative

Randi Weingarten,
President, American Federation of Teachers

John Wilson,
Executive Director, National Education Association

The System

Moderator
Thomas Toch,
Executive Director, Independent Education

Panelists
Tom Burnham,
Mississippi State Superintendent of Public Education

Linda Darling-Hammond,
Professor, Stanford University School of Education

Robert Schwartz,
Co-chair, Aspen Education and Society Program;
Academic Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Can We Do It?

Moderator
Marc Tucker,
President and CEO, National Center on Education and the Economy

State Sen.
Rich Crandall,
(R-AZ 19th District), Chairman, Senate Education Committee

Robert King,
President Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education

Jerry Weast,
Superintendent,
Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland