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Welcome to Education Priorities
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“The source of America's prosperity has never been merely how ably we accumulate wealth, but how well we educate our people. This has never been more true than it is today. In a 21st-century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there's an Internet connection, where a child born in Dallas is now competing with a child in New Delhi, where your best job qualification is not what you do, but what you know -- education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it's a prerequisite for success.”
President Barak Obama’s Education Speech Delivered on March 10, 2009
For more of this speech, click here.
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Susan Frost
President
Education Priorities
frost@edpriorities.net
Susan Frost is president of Education Priorities, a
progressive education policy consulting firm that focuses on helping
organizations set policy priorities that support their mission and
goals, develop education policy agendas that are grounded in research
and best practice, and make recommendations to policymakers on action to take
at the federal, state and local levels. |
The firm is mission-driven and works with clients who believe
that all children deserve and must have access to an excellent education from
preschool through college.
Ms. Frost represents national education and
children's organizations, business leaders, and education foundations, helping
them develop new education policy initiatives and identify opportunities in
current law to implement state and district-wide school improvements. She
promotes policies to help make sure that our nation’s students receive a
cutting-edge education, benchmarked against world standards, allowing them to
graduate with 21st century skills, able to compete globally, and meet
world-class standards.
As a skilled facilitator, she has led forums and
meetings of researchers and practitioners on a wide range of topics, including:
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Improving U.S. graduation rates and turning
around low-performing schools
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Internationalizing the curriculum and engaging
and motivating today’s students
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Successful national and state policies for the
middle grades
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National high school policy
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Adolescent literacy
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Preparing and retaining high-quality teachers
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After school and extended learning time
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Increasing the number of students prepared to
enter and graduate from college
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The importance of school, community, and parent
advocacy
Ms. Frost is one of only a few education leaders who
has experience in both the legislative and the executive branches of government,
as well as in leading national non-profit organizations. As a respected advocate
for expanding educational opportunities for all students, she has helped to
create successful new alliances to make high school and middle grades education
a top priority at the federal and state levels.
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