May 23, 2013
Yesterday, the Chicago Public School (CPS) Board voted to close 49 underperforming and under enrolled elementary scho
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May 7, 2013
Over the last two years, TNTP (formally The New Teacher Project) has trained, evaluated, and certified teachers.
April 24, 2013
This Friday, April 26 marks the thirty year anniversary of the landmark report, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform.
April 17, 2013
The business community has a lot of interest in how the nation’s education system is performing. After all, companies are the eventual consumer of the education system. So, does business believe our education system is living up to its potential? No.
April 2, 2013
The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman recently interviewed Harvard education specialist, Tony Wagner about adapting our education system to align with workforce n
April 1, 2013
As our political leaders take stock of where we stand in 2013—both as individual states and as a nation—we are hearing a consistent message: jobs, our economy and education are inextricably linked.
March 29, 2013
The Chicago Public Schools’ battle with its teachers union over school reform has been headline news for the better part of the last six months. One of the reforms Mayor Rahm Emanuel has implemented is new teacher evaluations partially based on student achievement.
March 26, 2013
Mathematica Policy Research has released its second report in a five-year study of 43 Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) middle schools.
March 12, 2013
How can so called education “experts” be so far apart on the issue of common core state standards (CCSS) and whether they are the right approach for our children? One such expert (and former colleague of mine at the U.S.