During last night's prime-time press conference, President Obama was asked about shared sacrifices during these tough times. The president noted that these are indeed difficult times for many Americans.
Charter schools are different from traditional district schools in that they are free of many regulations and operating constraints, but in return for their freedoms they are held accountable for their results. Those charter schools that fail to deliver results over time are closed, the theory holds.
In the news business, reporters have a saying for a boiler plate quote an editor can remove to tighten a story. It's "throw-away" and that's exactly what the governor's response to the Fordham/Paul Hill study deserves.
As today is the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I wanted to share some text from a series of interviews I conducted with Wiktor Kulerski in the late 1990s.
Can Gloria Estefan save Miami's schools? In case you haven't heard, despite its subtropical location, the Miami-Dade County school district isn't doing so hot. First, its school board meetings, which resemble certain scenes from the movie Animal House, became public-television sensations.
The Heinz Endowments seeks a new education program director. All the information is here.
The American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence is looking for a Teach & Inspire Program Coordinator. Everything you want to know about it can be found here.
Rick relocates to snowy locales, while Andy sits in. This week, he and Mike discuss Fordham’s new paper on “private public schools,” Obama’s announcement to tie Title I to “career-and college-ready” standards, and Tim Pawlenty’s metaphorical use of the nine-iron, all while listening to Nico Petrilli (that’s Mike’s son) rap.
The Broad Center for Superintendents is currently accepting applications and nominations for the 2003 Urban Superintendents Academy. This executive leadership development program is designed to prepare the next generation of public education CEOs. All expenses are fully covered by The Broad Foundation.
Achieve, Inc., a nonprofit education policy organization, is seeking a research analyst for its Public Leadership Initiative to assist with research, data collection and analysis, conferences, reports, and web work. Applicants must have an advanced degree, 3-4 years of public policy experience and strong quantitative, analytic and communication skills.
Are you highly motivated, smart, and passionate about reading and writing? Want to work with other highly motivated smarties who are too? Then this position might be for you.
As explained in our review of state standards and the Common Core, standards are just the “cookbook” not the “dish.” Enter Common Core (no relation to the standards), which has gone grocery shopping and spent some prep time in the kitchen.
If you're in town on October 3, and you're not at the American Enterprise Institute at 9 a.m. for a book forum and panel discussion about Albert Shanker, to include Senator Lamar Alexander, John Podesta, John Cole, and Checker Finn--then, well, we hope your wedding was lovely.
Don't forget to RSVP for AEI's "Left at the Altar" event. At this provocative session, one will be treated to a discussion of whether or not the Bush Administration sacrificed its conservative principles in compromising over No Child Left Behind. It will take place on February 5, 2009 from 1:00-2:30 pm.
Join a panel of spectacular speakers on March 24 for "An Army of Great Teachers?" The discussion will take place from 3:30-5:00 pm at the American Enterprise Institute and contemplate how to replicate the overworked and overdedicated teachers found at charter powerhouses KIPP and Achievement First, for example.
Next Friday, the American Enterprise Institute will host an event to celebrate the release of Frederick M.
Join an array of presenters and discussants at AEI's upcoming conference: "Educational Innovation and Philadelphia's School of the Future." Much has been made of the potential for technology to transform education, but how much do we truly know about its effects? Find out on Thursday May 28 from 9 am to 3:45 pm.
The little red schoolhouse. It is the traditional image of American education, and yet largely nonexistent these days. But one particular set of red schoolhouses, which only lately vanished, are of particular note: The No Child Left Behind schoolhouses which used to protrude from the U .S. Department of Education headquarters.
On June 9 from 4 to 5:30 pm, AEI will present "Schoolhouses and Courthouses: Does Court-Driven School Reform Deliver?" This fascinating discussion will treat the issue of whether or not the courts are an effective implement of reform. Eric A. Hanushek (Hoover Institution) and Alfred A.
Our favorite all-purpose think tank will host "The Next Frontier in School Choice: Tuition Tax Credits?" on December 15 from 3:00 to 4:30 pm. This discussion will feature Kevin Welner (University of Colorado at Boulder), Kevin Chavous (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP), Adam Schaeffer (Cato), and Sheila Simmons (NEA). The one and only Rick Hess will moderate.
Don't forget: next Monday, December 15, AEI will host "The Next Frontier in School Choice: Tuition Tax Credits?" from 3:00 to 4:30 pm. This discussion will feature Kevin Welner (University of Colorado at Boulder), Kevin Chavous (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP), Adam Schaeffer (CATO), and Sheila Simmons (NEA).
... "Disruptive Innovation in Education and Health Care," a conference on the potentially "disruptive" nature of technology vis-à-vis long-established business practices. This fascinating event will feature a keynote speech by Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen, an iconic figure in the study of business innovation.
This coming Monday, December 7, AEI’s Wohlstetter Conference Center will host a titillating and heavy-hitting all-day event entitled, “More Than Just Schools: Rethinking the Demand for Educational Entrepreneurship.” Panels feature a star-studded line up, including Fordham’s own Eric Osberg.
The American Enterprise Institute will treat the topic "Race to the Top? The Promise--and Challenges--of Charter School Growth" on Monday, April 6 from 9:30-11:00 am.
Does AEI ever tire of hosting panel discussions? Probably not, when they're this good. "The Supply Side of School Reform and the Future of Educational Entrepreneurship" will take place October 25. It starts at 9 a.m. and goes until 5:10 p.m. Panels are packed, their star-caliber participants numerous.
A conference, actually, on October 25th, with some pretty swanky presenters and discussants, including Washington, D.C.'s new schools chancellor, Michelle Rhee. Their topic of discussion is the supply side of education: the role of entrepreneurship, attracting and retaining human capital, etc.
To discuss Frederick M. Hess and Michael J. Petrilli's forthcoming article "Left at the Altar" (it's a pun, get it?), AEI will host an event on February 5, 2009 from 1:00-2:30 pm.
