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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Testimony to the Michigan House Education Subcommittee on Common Core Standards
Prepared for Delivery on August 28, 2013
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Classroom, Inc. hiring a Chief Officer of Educational Partnerships
This person will be charged with expanding the firm’s reach.
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March 23: YEP-DC's Policy to Practice conference
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.
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March 22: CAP Governance Event
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.
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The Brown Center seeks a communications coordinator/manager
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.
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Early Career award conferred to EEPS alums Cory Koedel and Katherine Strunk
Congratulations to Cory Koedel and Katherine Strunk, both recipients of American Education Research Association’s “Early Career” award&m
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Gates Foundation hiring
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation seeks to fill two positions on its U.S. Program Policy & Advocacy Team. The work to be done could be either in DC or in Seattle.
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The NGA is looking for two new members for its education team
The National Governors Association, seeks two experienced professionals to join its education division.
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A new resource for education reformers
The Foundation for Excellence in Education launched a nifty new website to empower and aid reformers. It features an interactive map illustrating state-level education policies and a page that will allow users to create graphs using NAEP data. Next year, they plan to add a searchable database and a policy library. We can’t wait!
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Global Report Card 2.0
Global Report Card 2.0, developed by Jay Greene and Josh McGee on behalf of the George W. Bush Institute’s Education Reform Initiative, was released last week.
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NACSA hiring a Director of State and Federal Policy
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers is seeking a new Director of State and Federal Policy. The Director would work directly on the NACSA agenda and would be responsible for promoting it in states and in Washington.
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Fordham seeks a research + staff assistant
Would you like to work at the forefront of the national education-reform movement? Are you a personable, organized, and detail-oriented self-starter? Are you comfortable handling varied responsibilities? Calm under fire? A born multi-tasker? A resourceful researcher? A savvy writer/editor? If so you might be the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s new D.C.-based research + staff assistant.
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AEI event on the Common Core, January 10
On January 10, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will host a discussion on what it will take for school systems to adopt the Common Core effectively. The panel, moderated by Rick Hess, will feature College Board’s David Coleman, the Education Department’s Joanne Weiss, and superintendents Eric J. Becoats, John Deasy, and Elizabeth Celania-Fagen.
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The Ryan Fellowship for aspiring principals
The Ryan Fellowship is seeking applicants for its one-year, fully paid fellowship, which provides aspiring principals in New York, Chicago, and Memphis the opportunity to plan the creation of a high-achieving urban school in the year prior to their first as a principal.
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The Walton Family Foundation seeks a senior program officer for the Great Lakes region
The Walton Family Foundation is seeking a skilled and experienced individual to join their K–12 education-reform team as a senior program officer for the Great Lakes region. The senior program officer will help manage a small team and a diverse portfolio of state- and local-based grantees working to empower parents with quality school choices.
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Citizen Schools hiring a new executive director
Citizen Schools seeks an extraordinary leader to serve as the New York executive director and to drive the next phase of its growth.
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Believe in GreatSchools?
GreatSchools is looking for a vice president of local engagement, preferably based in San Francisco.
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Are you the Bush Center’s newest education policy manager?
The Alliance to Reform Education Leadership (AREL), an initiative within the Bush Institute, believes that high-quality school principals are a key component of increased academic achievement. The new policy manager will report directly to the AREL director and education-reform director, and he/she will be part of the programming team for the education-reform division within the Institute.
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January 31: Cato hosts a Policy forum
As our nation comes ever closer to being “majority minority,” Americans will look increasingly to our education system to unite us. A natural impulse will be to force, or at least nudge, children from different ethnic, religious, or other backgrounds together in public schools.
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Educators 4 Excellence seeks an executive director
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.
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February 5: Fordham hosts the George W. Bush Institute
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
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Fordham LIVE, February 11: School Choice Reguations: Red Tape or Red Herring?
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.
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CRPE hiring a research analyst and an administrative assistant
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.
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February 28: Curriculum Counts: Fulfilling the Promise of the Common Core Standards
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.
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Common Core seeks a mathematics program manager
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).
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Fordham LIVE!: March 14: Assessing the President's Preschool Plan
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?
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Flypaper takes first prize in EWA contest
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.
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NACSA seeking 2013–14 fellows
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.
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March 25: AEI Common Core Event
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.