SMT - BOB CHASE PRESIDENT OF THE N.E.A 10AM TO 1PM EASTERN 8/29/01
Auto Channel -- Robert Gordon, Co-Publisher BOB CHASE President NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ON WHAT PARENTS AND CHILDREN CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THIS SCHOOL YEAR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2001 10:00AM TO 1:00PM EASTERN Robert F. (Bob) Chase, a leading advocate for public education, was elected president of the National Education Association at NEA's 1996 Representative Assembly in Washington, D.C. He was elected to a second three-year term in 1999. Since assuming his role as the head of the 2.6 million-member organization, Chase has focused his energy on recreating the NEA as the champion of quality teaching and quality public schools in the United States. Chase describes these efforts as a "new unionism," which stresses collaboration and cooperation, risk-taking, and personal responsibility for school quality. A June 1999 Education Week profile of the NEA president acknowledged his work, saying "Chase has taken on some of the toughest issues of any NEA leader in recent history. And he has done it in his characteristic style: by listening to people, reasoning with them, and then pushing on with what he believes is right." Chase currently serves on the executive board of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and is a board member of the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. He has represented the NEA before the U.S. Congress, and with numerous groups, including the United Nations, the Carnegie Foundation, and the Work in America Institute. Chase's educational interests are global. He has been a delegate to Education International and its predecessor organization, The World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession since 1988, and was recently elected North America-Caribbean Regional Representative on the executive board of Education International. Chase also has devoted considerable attention to the needs of special education students. He served on NEA’s Special Advisory Committee, which recommended policy on the inclusion of students with disabilities into regular education classrooms. Soon after assuming his role as NEA president, Chase outlined his ideas for a “new unionism” in an address before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. His remarks generated wide attention in both the local and national media, and continue to make him much in demand as a speaker. Chase has shared his vision for improving public education with audiences across the country, including Town Hall Los Angeles, the Detroit Economic Club, and the Dallas Friday Group. A bona fide newsmaker, Chase has been a guest on numerous television and radio programs and conducted hundreds of interviews with print reporters. He has appeared on CNN’s Crossfire, NBC's Today Show, CNN’s Inside Politics, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, PBS’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and ABC’s Nightline, among others. Chase regularly addresses the leading education issues of the day – including class size, quality teaching, and modernizing the nation's schools – in his bylined column which appears in The Washington Post and Education Week. He was named among the “Power 100” in September 2000 by Washington’s Regardie’s magazine. The National Education Association is the nation’s largest professional employee organization, representing 2.6 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionasl, school administrators, retired educators, and students preparing to become teachers. TO BOOK A WINDOW, PLEASE CONTACT JIM BOWLING AT 323-930-5830. Online Newsroom, Additional Information: http://wrtsun03.wrtech.com/secure/plsql/pr201v2?coin=3204 From: ON THE SCENE PRODUCTIONS, INC. Web Site: http://www.onthescene.com Reply: mailto:JBOWLING@onthescene.com Telephone: 323-930-5830 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please use Reply button for address updates or other changes. ------------------------------------------------------------------