This exciting new role will be charged with launching Educators 4 Excellence–Connecticut. As a member of the E4E senior leadership team, the founding executive director will have strategic and operational responsibility for E4E-CT staff, programs, growth, and execution of its mission to elevate the voices of teachers in Connecticut state and local education policy.
Please join us for a presentation of the Bush Institute’s new report Operating in the Dark: What Outdated State Policies and Data Gaps Mean for Effective School Leadership, a first-of-its-kind compilation of state-reported data on how the fifty states and the District of Columbia increase the supply of hi
A new Fordham study disputes the assumption that private schools won’t participate in choice programs, like vouchers and tax-credit scholarships, if government demands public accountability for student achievement. And on February 11 at 4:00 p.m. EST, David Stuit, the study’s author, will discuss how he came to this conclusion.
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) is looking to fill two positions on its University of Washington–based team: a research analyst and an administrative assistant. The research analyst will support Compact, Portfolio, and proposed work via a fair amount of fieldwork, data collection, and case studies.
In recent years, not enough attention within the education-reform movement has been paid to the classroom—that is, what exactly is being taught and how. The development of high-quality, content-rich curricula is of utmost concern as states struggle to adopt the new Common Core State Standards. The Manhattan Institute and the Thomas B.
The latest effort in Common Core’s Curriculum Mapping Project is designed to support the faithful teaching of standards-aligned math in K–12 classrooms across the country. The program manager is a key leadership position at Common Core (the organization).
In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for making preschool available to every child in America. But questions abound: Is universal preschool politically and fiscally feasible—or even educationally necessary? Should we be expending federal resources on universal pre-K or targeting true Kindergarten-readiness programs for the neediest kids?
We’re honored and humbled by the news that the Education Writers Association named Flypaper the best blog in the “education organizations and experts” category of its annual awards.
The National Association of Charter School Authorizes (NACSA) is recruiting the next cohort for its fellows program. NACSA Fellows enjoy a paid, yearlong opportunity to build their skills while improving the quality of charter authorizing and charter schools. To learn more and to apply, visit the organization’s website.
Are you a young D.C. professional with $20 and a passion for education? Meet others of your kind at YEP-DC’s Policy to Practice conference on March 23, 2013. The conference is designed to establish a space where education professionals can engage with others around the District on matters of educational research, policy, and practice.
Over the last twenty years, flagging achievement and disjointed education governance have led policymakers to explore alternative ways of organizing schools, like mayoral control, and to rethink district organization and the role of school boards and districts.
While most discussion about the Common Core State Standards Initiative has focused on its technical merits, its ability to facilitate innovation, or the challenges facing its practical implementation, there has been little talk of how the standards fit in the larger reform ecosystem.
How can we produce citizens who are attached to our country, devoted to its ideals, and eager to live an active civic life? Studying our documents and learning our history can surely help. But stories are even better. With "What So Proudly We Hail," educators Amy A. Kass and Leon R.
In 1983, A Nation at Risk sounded the alarm over the state of America’s K-12 system. What has changed in American education and society in the years since—and what still needs to happen? Join former U.S. education secretary William J.
The Wisconsin-based Kern Family foundation is looking to hire an education-reform program associate. The successful candidate will ensure the entrepreneurial, efficient, and effective expansion of the Foundation’s largest program. A master’s degree and two to five (or more) years of experience in relevant fields are preferred.
America’s teacher-pension systems (with up to a trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities, according to some estimates) present a raging public-policy dilemma. Career teachers deserve a secure retirement, but lawmakers promised them benefits the system cannot afford. So what’s the least bad option going forward? Who should bear the brunt of this legacy of fiscal irresponsibility?
Are you an exceptional writer and sharp policy analyst? Are you interested in helping to lead on-the-ground advocacy for K–12 education reform? Are you currently “between jobs”? Fordham’s office in Columbus, Ohio, is looking for you!
Are you an exceptional writer and sharp policy analyst? Are you interested in helping to lead on-the-ground advocacy for K–12 education reform? Are you currently “between jobs”? Fordham’s office in Columbus, Ohio, is looking for you!
Brookings’s Brown Center on Education Policy is looking for an entrepreneurial, organized, self-starting communications professional with at least three years of experience to develop and implement a comprehensive communications strategy. To learn more, visit their website.
Student Achievement Partners, based in New York City, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating student achievement by driving effective implementation of the Common Core State Standards—and they are seeking a lead advocate to mobilize teachers.
Would you like to work at the forefront of national education policy? Are you a resourceful researcher and ed policy wonk? A talented writer? Are you prepared to star in ridiculous April Fool's Day videos?
The Kern Family Foundation is looking for top principals to participate in a study of effective school leaders by taking a brief survey to identify the characteristics and attributes of high-performing principals. All information is confidential and participants will receive a comprehensive personal report valued at $400.00.
Is digital learning education’s latest fad or its future? What fundamental changes to the ways we fund, staff, and govern American schools are necessary to fulfill the technology's potential? Find out on Thursday, April 19, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Congratulations to Marc Porter-Magee and his hardworking staff at 50-CAN. The blossoming organization is opening its first international headquarters in Ottawa, to be called Can-CAN. Applications for an executive director and government-affairs manager are currently being accepted.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to know if its investments in K-12 education are making a lick of difference.
Fordham is proud to announce the creation of the Think Tank Review Review Review Review Project, TTR4P.
In last week’s Education Gladfly, we praised Mitt Romney for finally focusing on education during this election season (“Holy baloney, they care about education!,” March 29, 2012).
The National Council on Teacher Quality has an opening on its leadership team for a District Policy Director. If you’re an ed-policy wonk with expertise in district policies and senior-level experience in a school district, visit the NCTQ employment page to learn more and apply.
If so, here’s an update: The “War on the Common Core” turned out to be more literal than we had thought, Whitney Tilson is being, well, Whitney T
Time running out to sign up for next week’s discussion of the role of digital learning in education’s future. On May 17, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. EDT, an all-star lineup of online learning experts—including iNACOL’s Susan Patrick, Tom Vander Ark, and many more—will gather in Columbus, Ohio to examine where technology is taking education in the years to come.
