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The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation is seeking nominations for its third annual Prizes for Excellence in Education. Two prizes of $25,000 each are awarded to researchers, policymakers, and/or practitioners who have done outstanding work in education reform in ways that accord with the Foundation's core principles.
Those with ears tightly pressed to the education keyhole may have heard it whispered that Fordham is dipping its toe into the Ohio charter school sponsorship creek.
Are you an education policy analyst/writer/reformer looking for new worlds to conquer? We're looking for a deft writer/editor, a proven multi-tasker, and an adroit manager of others' work to lead our small research team. You must be an inspired and inventive thinker, a tireless worker, the owner of a sense of humor, in general accord with the Thomas B.
Eager, able staff assistant sought by hard-working education reform group with fast-moving, small team and stimulating, demanding colleagues. Located in downtown Washington D.C. Duties are highly varied but mainly administrative. Successful candidates will be intelligent, self-starting multi-taskers who are attentive to detail, flexible, humorous, literate, and tireless.
We need an accounting and office manager. Do you have experience in financial and accounting practices and an understanding of office administration? Are you interested in working in a small, fast-moving, lively, and sometimes demanding work environment? Are you cheerful, bright, friendly, and eager? Can you giggle when circumstances warrant? If so, this job may be perfect for you!
Are you a resourceful researcher? Do you write like an angel? Are you smart, well-read, and interested in education policy analysis? Can you work independently? Are you cheerful, bright, eager, funny, flexible, and eager to keep pace with a lively and sometimes demanding work environment?
*/ table.MsoNormalTable { } --> Friday, April 28, 2006 is the deadline for nominations for the 2007 Fordham Prizes for Excellence in Education. For more information on the prizes and how to nominate your outstanding candidate for this $25,000 award, please click here.
Are you interested in building a career in public relations or communications with an education specialization?
Are you passionate about improving education, obsessed with the news cycle, a glorious writer and a natural extrovert? Are you excited about reform ideas such as charter schools, national testing, and merit pay?
Fordham seeks a fall intern to help with research, writing, and office management duties. The gleaming candidate will have an avid interest in education, impeccable communications and writing skills, a desire to work hard in a demanding environment, and a glorious sense of humor.
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation is seeking superior candidates for its Research and Publications Manager in Washington. Are you an experienced writer and editor, a good project manager, and knowledgeable about education reform? Are you familiar with research methodologies, and have you ever helped published a report or magazine?
We seek resourceful, intelligent, hard-working and witty individuals who can write well and thrive in an intellectually stimulating and often intense work environment.
Our D.C. office seeks a tireless and resourceful (and maybe ambidextrous?) multi-tasker as staff assistant. The incredibly varied and fabulously engaging duties include scheduling and travel; planning events; researching and writing about education reform; answering phones; assisting our bookkeeper (no accounting experience necessary); and generally providing a helping hand where needed.
We're hiring now. Would you like to work with an organization at the forefront of influencing national education policy? Are you energetic, organized, and efficient at simultaneously handling multiple responsibilities? Are you eager, curious, able to flexibly adapt with changing circumstances and duties, and able to keep pace in a demanding work environment?
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation seeks a sharp, motivated summer intern. Details available at http://www.edexcellence.net/detail/opportunity.cfm?opportunity_id=1.
Generally, Fordham goes about filling its summer intern spots in much the same way as the best Manhattan restaurants fill their seats. An intern applicant must email us his application at 6 a.m., exactly two years before the desired start-date. Nonetheless, cancellations occur (generally due to incarceration), and this summer we have an unexpected opening.
Our D.C. office seeks a tireless and resourceful jack-of-all-trades to serve as staff assistant. The incredibly varied duties include assisting our president with scheduling and travel; planning events; researching and writing about education reform; answering phones; assisting our bookkeeper (no accounting experience necessary); and generally providing a helping hand where needed.
Our Dayton office needs (and deserves) a savvy research analyst with experience in policy analysis, research, writing, and editing and a passion for school reform. The successful applicant will report directly to Terry Ryan, Fordham's vice-president for Ohio Programs and Policy.
On Friday, September 8th, the Center for American Progress will host an all-star panel discussion of Weighted Student Funding. John Merrow will moderate the event, which brings together heavy-hitters Arlene Ackerman, Rod Paige, John Podesta, and Michael Rebell. A light breakfast will be served at 9.
The American Enterprise Institute examines the student-loan industry, the role it plays in higher education finance, and its implications for college access and affordability. On September 25, AEI will host a daylong conference to discuss all the subject's ins and outs. Speakers will include Alan Bersin, Secretary of Education of California; Catherine B.
Fordham seeks a Staff Assistant to help manage the life of our fearless leader, keep our D.C. office organized, and get our bills paid on time-and we'll even pay you to do it!
The quarterly journal Education Matters, edited by Paul Peterson, Checker Finn and others, is looking to hire an associate editor on a full- or part-time basis.
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation seeks a Finance Director and Chief Operating Officer to organize and manage its financial affairs and operations, working closely with the president and board of trustees.
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation seeks a bookkeeper/administrative assistant. For details see http://www.edexcellence.net/employment/bookkeeperadminasst.html
The U.S. Department of Education seeks proposal readers for its Teaching American History Grant Program. Readers will have a chance to influence how $100,000,000 of federal grant money-aimed at improving K-12 history teaching-is distributed.
When recently released graduation rate statistics were greeted by the business community with a hefty dose of skepticism, Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott decided to call on employers, and the Texas Association of Business in particular, to voluntarily stop hiring folks who haven't made it through that teenage rodeo--high school.
Like comets, elections, Olympics, and the moon, education policy ideas come and go in cycles. Consider America's on-again, off-again enthusiasm for national standards and tests. Way back in 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower called for "national goals" in education, including "standards." A decade later, President Richard M.
The Florida Schools of Excellence Commission (FSEC) is looking for a new Executive Director. This position is not for the faint of heart; FSEC not only authorizes charter schools but authorizes charter school authorizers.
Are you or someone you know trying to launch a career into policy? Education Sector may be looking for you to be their new Research Assistant! You'd get to work with some of Ed Sector's great minds, while conducting research and analysis on leading education issues.
