Deborah Dumont
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Deborah Dumont, is an educational consultant with a focus on progressive education, educational reform and advocacy, with a special interest in children at risk. Deborah’s 35 year career has led to leadership positions in a broad range of educational organizations, including Head of Schools, Co-founder of Hawkins Centers of Learning, an educational think-tank and Videatives, a teacher education company; she held executive positions at Educate and Aramark Work/Life Partnerships all multi-national education companies; and she currently leads a research and consulting practice focused on early education, school reform and systems thinking. Deborah has published in education journals on topics ranging from professional development models and attachment theory in adolescent education to how school building design impacts learning. In October 2009, she was elected as a trustee of the Hyde Leadership Charter School in the Bronx.

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Education Reform: Accent on the Wrong Syllable

Posted March 12, 2010 | 17:18:47 (EST)

What is President Obama thinking? The administration's recently announced

School Turnaround Grants
require school districts to take at least one of three drastic steps: firing the principal and at least half the staff of a troubled school; reopening it as a charter school; or closing the school altogether and transferring...

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Students at Charter High Schools More to Likely to Graduate College

Posted February 22, 2010 | 15:09:49 (EST)

First there was No Child Left Behind (NCLB), then Race to the Top (RTTT). Now, under The Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge (RTTTHSCC), a new initiative just announced in the Washington Post, one lucky school will have President Obama speak at its high school graduation....

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