Democratic chair candidates
share strategies with mayors
BY WILL LESTER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Candidates for
the chairmanship of the Democratic
National Committee talked Tuesday
about the need to rebuild the party
from the ground up as they pitched
themselves to Democratic mayors.
Howard Dean, a 2004 presidential
candidate, reminded the mayors that
he has run presidential campaigns,
raised millions of dollars and organ
ized voters throughout the country.
“This is all about local politics,”
Dean told the National Conference of
Democratic Mayors at a Washington
hotel. “If you want to win, you have
to start at the bottom.”
Dean, the former governor of
Vermont, got the endorsement Tues
day of the entire DNC delegation
from Florida as well as the state
Democratic chairs of Mississippi,
Utah, Oklahoma, Washington state
and Vermont.
Simon Rosenberg, founder of the
centrist New Democrat Network,
talked about the need to organize in
all 50 states and touted his abilities in
fund raising and devising ad cam
paigns. Rosenberg also has been col
lecting endorsements, including the
backing of former DNC chair Joe An
drew and former Dean campaign
manager JoeTHppi.
Former Texas Rep. Martin Frost
boasted of his leadership of the De
mocrats’ congressional campaign
committee, in which he raised $80
million over two election cycles. Frost
has been endorsed by veteran Demo
cratic organizer Robert Strauss and
House Democratic Whip Steny
Hoyer of Maryland.
Tim Roemer, the former Indiana
congressman who is more conserva
tive than the other candidates, said
Democrats “need a chairman who can
go into all 50 states and help Democ
rats win elections.” He said he has
confidence DNC members will not
have a “litmus test” on issues like
abortion; Roemer opposes some abor
tion procedures. He has collected
the backing of several prominent De
mocrats, including Louisiana Sen.
John Breaux and California Rep.
Ellen Tauscher.
Former Denver Mayor Wellington
Webb reminded the mayors that De
mocrats ignore many black votes
when they write off whole regions of
the country, such as the South. David
Leland, a former Ohio party chair,
said he helped deliver Ohio for Presi
dent Clinton eight years ago and can
help the Democrats again.
Democratic activist Donnie
Fowler said the key to party victory
is “listening to people from outside
Washington.”
“The question about Dean is,
while he will have a third of the vote
easily, can he get to 50 percent?”
Fowler asked. Then he referred to
Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign,
with its huge grass-roots organization
and more than $40 million raised.
“Dean had the oranges,” Fowler
said, “but he couldn’t make orange
juice.”
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counties. Six of the districts are classi
fied as high-need, meaning that at
least 20 percent of the students come
from families with incomes below
the poverty line. About 240 teachers
are expected to participate.
“We’re going to do an adapted ver
sion, an Oregonian version, of this
Japanese lesson study,” said Susan
Hardwick, a geography professor and
the CAS co-director of the project.
“We’re going to use video and
online support groups to extend it
to middle and secondary teachers,”
she added. “I think it’s going to be
really exciting.”
QCTeach is based on the research
of Marilyn Olson, coordinator of
middle and secondary teacher educa
tion in the COE. Olson worked on a
pilot program in the summer of 2003
and will be co-directing this program
with Hardwick.
“(The program is) for teachers
who don’t ordinarily get financial,
emotional or intellectual support
from universities like the U of O,”
said Hardwick. “We feel like all
teachers are under so much pressure
right now.”
The project directors hope to help
schools with limited resources
meet the demands of the No Child
Left Behind Act. Hardwick expects
the program will gain national recog
nition and expand after the initial
three-year period.
“The legislation in Washington,
the No Child Left Behind push, is re
ally forcing teachers to become bet
ter equipped to handle the content
that they teach,” she said. “We
wanted to write a grant that would
support them, pay their tuition, pay
their travel and give them the sup
port they need to enhance their
content knowledge.”
The project proposal drew the at
tention of U.S. Department of Educa
tion officials, who awarded $412,693
to the effort in the form of a FIPSE, or
Fund for the Improvement of Postsec
ondary Education, grant. The grant is
one of three awarded to different
projects at the University in 2004 and
contributes to QCTeach’s total budget
of $655,549.
The state’s education department
gave a separate grant of $69,984.
The CAS will fund about 37 percent
of the project, according to the press
release.
“We have content experts in differ
ent departments helping us with
this,” Hardwick said. “(They’re)
Tim Bobosky | Photographer
Marilyn Olson, coordinator of middle and secondary teacher education at the College
of Education and co-director of the QCTeach program, helps facilitate a meeting of
content specialists.
professors who you see lecturing in the
big courses or working with the gradu
ate students. Now five of them are go
ing to help us work with teachers.
“Those five faculty are part of a
larger initiative that we created a
couple years ago called ECAT, the
Education Careers Advising Team,”
Hardwick added. “These are faculty
who, for free, meet with students
regularly who want to be teachers.
They’re advisors and supporters of
future teachers. ”
Olson said recruitment of teachers
will take place in the next two weeks.
“What we hope to do is to have
the opportunity to study the re
sults," Olson said. She said she
wants to determine “how will this
help the kids?”
“(Teachers) don’t normally have
the time to exchange ideas,” Lizy Ma
dathil, a content specialist in mathe
matics, said. “This gives them
a chance.”
The deans of the CAS and the COE
responded in a press release.
“We want to improve access to the
latest and best information in key
subject areas — math, science, the
social sciences, language arts and
English as a second language —
without additional cost to schools,”
CAS Dean Joe Stone said.
“Teachers put out hour after hour
and really don’t have the time or the
assistance to study why some
things work and others don’t.
Certainly not at the level that we
want to examine,” COE Dean Marty
Kaufman said. “We’re trying to un
lock the dynamic between teaching
and learning so that teachers can
reach more students.”
A lesson study such as the one this
program aims to accomplish has nev
er been used before, Hardwick said.
“We have a whole different
model that’s evolving for the proj
ect,” Hardwick said. “International
ly, lesson studies have been used
for teacher development, but not in
the unique way that Marilyn piloted
and we’re going to build on in
this project.”
In addition, Hardwick said, this is
the first time the COE and the CAS
have had a big grant together.
Hardwick hopes to extend the ben
efits of the teaching project to current
CAS students.
“(Students) don’t really get the
support when they’re getting their
major in arts and sciences; the
teaching comes the fifth year, after
they graduate,” she said. “We’re try
ing to create programs that will sup
port future teachers — keep them
encouraged that they want to teach,
motivate them and give them really
solid content training in their ma
jors and in their field.”
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