The Institute for Urban and Minority Education

Task Force on Supplementary Education

The Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and the College Board hosted a one-day roundtable on Supplementary Education Initiatives at the College Board Headquarters in Manhattan on January 23, 2004. This was the initial meeting of the Task Force, a widely representative, volunteer group working to advocate for and enhance the supplemental education options available for our children, in active collaboration with Region 10 of the New York City Department of Education. The vision of the group involves the identification and promotion of methods and procedures for better enabling family and community members to actively support the academic and personal development of children. The Task Force will engage processes designed to:

identify, produce and enhance human capital in the Northern Manhattan Community;
develop academic ability and other forms of intellective, social and professional competence - in students, their parents and professional educators;
interpret and produce knowledge and technique concerning supplementary education; and
promote the sponsorship and utilization of supplementary educationservices in the Northern Manhattan Community.

Professor Edmund W. Gordon, Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) states "...that the idea of supplementary education is based on the premise that beyond exposure to the school's formal academic curriculum, high academic achievement is closely associated with exposure to family and community based activities and learning experiences in support of academic development that occur outside of school."

This meeting of the Task Force was moderated by two of its three Co-Chairs: Dr. Sharon Robinson, Executive Vice President, Educational Testing Service and President, ETS Policy Leadership Institute and Vice Chancellor Adelaide Sanford, Board of Regents, New York State Board of Education. The third Co-Chair is Dr. James Comer, Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University. Hugh Price, author of Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education possible was the luncheon speaker. Price is the immediate past CEO of the National Urban League and now, Senior Advisor to Piper Rudnick. The initial roundtable meeting focused on: the family as educator; a review of extant resources for supplementary education activities; and the social marketing of supplementary education in Central Harlem. For further information, please contact Brenda Mejia. The Task Force is creating a mailing list for future communications. Please let us know if you wish to be included.

Task Force Members

LaRue Allen
Raymond & Rosalee Professor of Applied Psychology Steinhardt School of Education
New York University

Darlyne Bailey
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dean, Teachers College
Columbia University

Deborah Bial
President and Founder
The POSSE Foundation, Inc

Valentine J. Burroughs, M.D.
Medical Director
Chairman Department of Medicine
North General Hospital

Calvin Butts
Reverend
Abyssinian Baptist Church

Eugene Callender
Reverend
St. James Presbytarian

Velma L. Cobb
Vice President of Education
and Youth Development
National Urban League

*James Comer, M.D.
Associate Dean
College of Medicine
Yale University

Wallace Cooke Jr.
Contractor

Kadiatou Diallo
Amadou Diallo Foundation

Jean Green Dorsey
President
Management Matters

Vincent A. Dotoli
Head of School
Harlem Episcopal School

Babette Edwards
President, Harlem Parents Union
Chair, Harlem Education Roundtable

Howard T. Everson,
VP for Academic Initiatives and
Chief Research Scientist
The College Board

C. Virginia Fields
Manhattan Borough President

Sharon Parker-Frazier
Co-Chair Youth and Education
Community Board 7, Manhattan

Lucy Friedman
President
The After-School Corporation (TASC)

Lenora Fulani
Co-Founder, All Stars Project, Inc.
Co-Director, Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth

Robert Fullilove
Associate Dean, Community and Minority Affairs
Co-Director, Community Research Group
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Hector Gesualdo
Executive Director
ASPIRA of New York

**Edmund W. Gordon
Director, Institute for Urban and Minority Education
Richard March Hoe Professor of Psychology and Education, Emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University
John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Yale University

Clarence T. Grant
Reverend
Convent Avenue Baptist Church

Montgomery Gray
Associate Professor of Social Sciences
Bronx Community College

LaRuth Grey
Director of External Relations
Metro Center for Urban Education
Steinhardt School of Education

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Virginia & Leonard Marx Professor of Child and Parent Development and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University

Héctor Cordero-Guzmán
Chair, Department of Black and Hispanic Studies
Baruch College

Irving Hamer
Professor of Practice in Education
Department of Organization and Leadership
Teachers College, Columbia University

Robert Jackson
Chair of the Committee on Contracts
Member of the Finance, Education, Sanitation, Housing & Parks Committees

Pam Jones
In the Spirit of the Children
Founder and Director

Jacquelyn Kamin
Manhattan Representative
Education Policy Panel
NYC Department of Education

Andrea Van De Kamp
Senior Vice President
Chairman West Coast Operations

Augusta Souza Kappner
President
Bank Street College of Education

Janet Kelley
Executive Director The Partnership for After School Education

Hope Leichter
Elbenwood Professor of Education
Department of International & Transcultural Studies
Teachers College, Columbia University

Paula Martin
Executive Director
Harlem Center for Education

C. Vernon Mason
Executive Director
Uth Turn Project

Claude Mayberry, Jr.
President and CEO
Science Weekly Inc.
President of the National Commission
of African American Education

Olga A. Mendez
State Senator

LaMar P. Miller
Professor of Education and
Executive Director
Steinhardt School of Education
New York University

Peter Negroni
Senior Vice President for K-12 Education
The College Board

Pedro Noguera
Professor of Teaching and Learning
Steinhardt School of Education
New York University

Pedro Pedraza
Program Director, CUNY Caribbean Exchange Program and Researcher
Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Hunter College

Moises Perez
Executive Director
Alianza Dominicana

Bill Perkins
Council Member

*Sharon Robinson
Executive Vice President, ETS
President, Educational Policy
Leadership Institute
Educational Testing Service

*Adelaide Sanford
Vice Chancellor, Board of Regent
New York State Department of Education

Hector Santana
Empire State Development Corporation NYC, East Harlem Initiative

Gary Simons
Founder and Executive Director
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America

Lucille Swarns
Regional Superintendent, Region 10
New York City Board of Education
Chancellor's District Bronx Region

Sandra Timmons
President, A Better Chance

Sheila Evans-Tranumn
Associate Commissioner
Office of New York City Schools and Community Services
NYS State Department of Education

Eugene Webb
Webb & Brooker, Inc. Real Estate

Fred Weidmann
Minister of Education, Riverside Church

Carol White
Special Assistant to the President for Public Affairs; Higher Education Officer
Bronx Community College

Ginger Williams
Principal, PS 200

Marina W. Winton
President & Chief Executive Officer
“I Have a Dream” Foundation

Task Force Staff
Beatrice Bridglall
Jean Green Dorsey
Erwin Flaxman
Brenda Mejia
Elvin Montgomery

**Chair
*Co-Chair

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