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!
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.
If so, then you're in luck because the Laura and John Arnold Foundation is looking for a director of public accountability.
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. We seek resourceful, intelligent, detail-oriented, hard-working individuals who are capable of excelling in an intellectually stimulating and often intense work environment.
If so, then you might be in luck. The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is looking for a director of public accountability.
Have a talent for research? A knack for opinion writing? Can you keep an office humming? If so, apply to be an intern at the Fordham Institute. We seek resourceful, intelligent, detail-oriented, hard-working individuals who are capable of excelling in an intellectually stimulating and often intense work environment.
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.
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.
Building Excellent Schools is looking for an experienced manager and committed ed reformer to lead its new Excellent Schools Network.
Love D.C.? Passionate about education? GreatSchools is looking for a program director committed to improving educational outcomes for District children by inspiring and guiding parents to be involved. Find all the details at the GreatSchools website.
The achievement gap will cede the stage at the American Enterprise Institute’s “No Citizen Left Behind: Closing America’s Civic Empowerment Gap” discussion in on May 14. Harvard scholar Meira Levinson will join AEI’s Rick Hess and Charles B. Adams of The SEED School of Washington, D.C. from 9 to 10:30 a.m. for a conversation about her book of the same name.
SABIS Educational Systems, Inc., an international EMO that operates nine schools and licenses its education program to charters in several states, is looking to hire a business development specialist. In this position, you’d identify opportunities to start new schools or license programs; several years experience conducting new market analysis and/or project management are a must.
Next Wednesday's discussion on the dollar costs of Common Core implementation will now feature an important new voice: former Department of Education official and noted Common Core skeptic Ze'ev Wurman. Wurman will add his insights to a panel that already includes former Florida Education Commissioner Eric J.
