Eminent Scholar of Educational Reform, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 1978-present (on leave 1985-1988). Instructional Technology Consultant, Department of Defense Dependent Schools, Germany, March, 1999-2002 Senior Fellow, Phelps Stokes Foundation, January, 2001- present Sages Advisory Panel member for The Council for Global Education

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Nominating Speech:

Dr. Dwight W. Allen

Dwight W. Allen is Eminent Scholar of Educational Reform at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He received his BA, MA and Ed.D. from Stanford University in 1953-59. He is known internationally for his work with distance education and microteaching (his teaching assessement concept developed at Standard in 1960s), later simplified by incorporating the 2+2 model. Among hundreds of his publications are Schools for a New Century: A Conservative Approach to Radical School Reform (1992), and American Schools: The $100 Billion Challenge (2000), coauthored with his former student Bill Cosby.

Support true academic standards and reject punitive standardized testing that deprives schools of funding solely because of low test scores;

Support not penalize school districts that need extra help because they have many poor, minority or immigrant students;

Work to restore public education as an effective vehicle for social mobility, as it has been for so much of our country's history;

Open up many routes to higher education;

Improve teacher pay, dignity and respect;

Reject voucher systems and other privatization schemes;

Protect our students from commercial influences and marketing in their schools;

Understand that in addition to training for good jobs, the public education system must educate responsible, engaged citizens.