Willard R. Daggett, Ed.D., President of the International Center for Leadership in Education, is recognized worldwide for his proven ability to move education systems towards more rigorous and relevant skills and knowledge for all students. He has assisted a number of states and hundreds of school districts with their school improvement initiatives, many in response to No Child Left Behind and its demanding adequate yearly progress (AYP) provisions. Dr. Daggett has also collaborated with education ministries in several countries and with the Council of Chief State School Officers, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Governors Association, and many other national organizations. The International Centre for Leadership in EducationAnd here's what Mr. Daggett had to say (Today's Students, Yesterday's Schooling) about English Instruction and its value in the 21st Century in an article in 1994, about the time Ontario education in English was about to face its biggest change in three decades.
