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12.22.2011

Joyce job

The Joyce Foundation (no relation), based in Chicago, seeks an education program officer. The job duties are extensive and varied: read about them, and about application procedures, here.

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12.22.2011

Just because the sky's not falling, doesn't mean your school is good

Far be it from me to take on Nicholas Lemann—former Managing Editor of the Washington Monthly, former staff reporter for the Washington Post, staff writer for The New Yorker, author of The Big Test (about the SATs), and current dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism—but&hell

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12.22.2011

Kauffman goes to the lab

The Kauffman Foundation has an exciting new venture: Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation. This offshoot seeks to connect forward-thinking funders with innovative entrepreneurs, and they’re starting in the education sphere with the Kauffman Labs Education Ventures Program. Business from concept to startup (under 18 months old) are invited to apply.

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12.22.2011

Kevin Carey, smart person

This week, we welcome an occasional guest co-host and self-styled brainiac to the show. He and Mike make their post-election education predictions, chat about the gifted program hoopla in New York, and contemplate the asperity of superstar charter organizations' scalability.

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12.22.2011

Key charter job available

Calling all social entrepreneurs! The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools seeks a Director of State Services to help expand charter support organizations’ capacity, oversee Alliance efforts to strengthen those organizations, and support the work of the Alliance’s State Services Committee, comprised of leading figures in the charter sector.

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12.22.2011

Kids in a candy store

This week, Mike and Rick discuss how schools should fund chunky students, what accountability has to do with science, and how long to keep Juan in a bilingual classroom. We interview National Council on Teacher Quality President Kate Walsh, and News of the Weird is a saucy mess. Who let the dogs out? This 15-minute podcast!

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12.22.2011

Kinder Excellence in Teaching award nominations

If doctors and lawyers can make $100,000 a year, why not teachers? That question led Nancy and Rich Kinder to team up with the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) and offer the $100,000 Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award. This award will go to one outstanding teacher working in an underserved American community.

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12.22.2011

KIPP calling

Want to make a positive difference and work for a fantastic organization? KIPP Columbus (Ohio) seeks a founding cluster executive director (see here) and a school leader (see here). What are you waiting for?

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12.22.2011

KIPP Columbus

The KIPP Foundation is seeking an accomplished leader to create a cluster of KIPP schools in Columbus, Ohio. The Founding Cluster Executive Director is responsible for the execution of KIPP's strategic plan, which includes ensuring the start-up and successful growth of a cluster of at least five schools serving approximately 1500 students in grades K-12.

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12.22.2011

KIPP is hiring

KIPP is looking for smart, savvy, energetic people to help it carry out its newly-assumed obligation to stabilize and reconstruct Iraq, and to spread its "work hard, be nice" message to traditionally underserved religious minorities and militias.

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12.22.2011

Kiwis and cigars

This week, Mike and Rick talk about the Wall Street Journal's silliness, dropouts in the ivory tower, and Rick's uncle's smoking habits. Races to the bottom abound! We've got an interview with Jeffrey Henig of the Charter School Achievement Consensus Panel, and News of the Weird isn't.

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12.22.2011

Koret Foundation seeks program officer

The San Francisco-based Koret Foundation seeks a program officer. As part of the professional program staff team, this person will review grant requests to determine need, program feasibility, budget sufficiency, organizational capacity; conduct site visits with potential grantees, and develop recommendations for approval or denial.

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12.22.2011

Last chance for charter school funding

No, we're not handing out money to worthy charters. But now that we have your attention, Washington-area education reformers ought not let October 14th (tomorrow!) pass by without attending the Progressive Policy Institute's Charter School Funding Gap forum. Starting at 9:30 am (breakfast will be served), the event features a glittering panel including Bryan C.

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12.22.2011

Lavender curricula

This week, Mike and Rick talk Little Rock, Palo Alto, and international competitiveness. We have an interview with one of the foremost authorities on NAEP, and Education News of the Weird is going to the movies with a hunk of Camembert. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.

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12.22.2011

Lead the leaders

New Leaders for New Schools, an organization that recruits and trains talented people to become urban school principals, seeks a development coordinator and a recruiting and admissions coordinator for its Washington, D.C., branch.

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12.22.2011

Lead with new vigor

New Leaders for New Schools is a national nonprofit organization that selects and trains individuals, including non-educators, to become urban public school principals. Those accepted into the program receive tuition-free training, coursework, and certification in addition to a paid residency with benefits. The deadline to apply for a fellowship for the 2006 class is March 1st.

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12.22.2011

Learn about evolution

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is where you want to be March 20th from 9 to 11 a.m. A distinguished panel will discuss the evolving federal role in education, and how No Child Left Behind came to be. All the information to RSVP is here.

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12.22.2011

Leave room for the Holy Spirit

This week, Mike and Rick discuss increasing class size, increasing the federal role (and New York Times' naïveté), and decreasing school years in Oregon. Then Amber gives us the low down on Tom Loveless's new Brown Center report on education and Rate that Reform explains the death of fun at school dances.

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12.22.2011

Leno passes the test

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner may have turned into an excuse for pols and celebs to rub elbows, but we couldn’t help laughing at Jay Leno’s contribution to the evening. Got a failing student?

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12.22.2011

Less of Washington, more of ourselves

If you’re free tomorrow, Friday, December 3, 2010 from noon to 2:00 PM, head over to the Hudson Institute for a redux on Lamar Alexander’s and Chester E. Finn, Jr.’s The New Promise of American Life, first published in 1995.

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12.22.2011

Let's try this again&

Last week's News and Analysis incorrectly stated that public unions outspent Arnold Schwarzenegger $172 million to $90 million in defeating four education propositions on California's ballot earlier this month. (Those figures also included spending on four non-education propositions.) According to Michael Kirst, the correct count is: Public unions: $104 million, Schwarzenegger: $41 million.