Inquiring minds want to know: What will education reform look like in the next White House? Join AEI on Tuesday, October 16 from 4:30PM to 5:45PM for a frank conversation between Jon Schnur and Marty West, Obama and Romney education-policy advisors.
Not-for-profit research organization CNA is looking for a proven team leader with a doctorate and a dozen years of experience in education research and evaluation to serve as director of its Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Appalachia.
Last month’s strike in Chicago? Settled. Its meaning? Not so much. Next Wednesday, Stanford University’s teacher-union guru Terry Moe and Democrats for Education Reform’s Joe Williams will debate the future of teacher unions and whether they should retain expansive collective bargaining and striking rights.
If you’re a skilled researcher with a talent for writing and a passion for education, an internship with the Fordham Institute may a perfect fit.
Alabama’s A+ Education Partnership seeks to hire an executive director to develop and lead a new division, the A+ Center for Innovation (CFI). Scheduled to launch in January 2013, the A+ Center for Innovation will promote and facilitate innovation in schools by providing information, technical assistance, and implementation grants to re-imagine and redesign the education of students.
The Vision Network of Delaware is seeking an Executive Director to serve as a breakthrough leader in building the capacity of First State schools to drive and sustain unprecedented academic gains, and to develop the long-term strategy for the organization. To learn more and apply, visit the position page.
The Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust (CEE-Trust) is looking for an assistant director to design and implement new blended-learning programming, consult for member groups, and keep the organization humming.
Executive directors of the University of Chicago’s Consortium of Chicago School Research have gone on to lead the Institute for Education Sciences and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Should urban parents send their kids to socioeconomically diverse public schools?
Bellwether Education Partners is searching for a research assistant to work with partner and
The Indiana Public Charter Schools Association (IPCSA) is seeking a new executive director, who will have the opportunity to be the voice of charter schools in Indiana and help transform the lives of children by supporting existing charter schools and helping to create new charter schools.
British author and director of research at the Centre for Market Reform of Education, Gabriel Sahlgren brings us back to Economics 101 with the contention that there is one root cause of all problems afflicting education today: a lack of proper incentives for quality. He argues that the strongest system would be built on a functioning, choice-heavy education market.
Jeb Bush wrote a strong defense of the Common Core in the National Review, in which he stoutly advocates high standards, calls out Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck, and argues that Obama’s support has “complicated the understanding of who initiated and led t
Sometimes winning the school-choice lottery is the only thing you care about as a parent.
It should not be a sworn enemy of vouchers
City-County Council members in Indianapolis convened a panel of experts Thursday evening to discuss the impact of charter authorizers on school quality.
This is why it was important for Georgia voters to create an independent authorizer for charter schools
A Chicago public school and public library will begin to share space on Thursday, breaking ground for a new “library-within-a-school” model that may be “copied and mimicked all across the city,” according to an
Despite the tireless marriage-wrecking efforts of Common Core opponents and their acolytes and funders, few states that initially pledged their troth to these rigorous new standards for English and math are in divorce mode.
To fully appreciate the academics of rural schools, let’s dig into three data points that were not components of the state’s rating system.
New York made education headlines last week, as its public schools reported substantially lower test scores than in previous years. The cause of the drop?
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute recently announced two new vice presidents to lead its education-reform efforts in Ohio.
The Fordham Ohio staff thanks Terry Ryan for his time, energy, and commitment to serving the state of Ohio and its students for twelve years.
Many states have found a solution for how to better serve their inner-city students through portfolio districts, urban districts that prescribe to a continuous improvement model based on seven key components.
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
The Center for Education Policy recently released a three-part series of reports reviewing the Common Core State standards implementation with focuses on the federal role, state progress and challenges, and teacher preparation, training, and assessments for the new standards.
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute today announced two new vice presidents to lead its education-reform efforts in Ohio.
When New York released the test-score data from its first administration of the Common Core–aligned tests, they unleashed the shot heard ‘round the education world
