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.
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.
