April 12, 2013
The Obama Administration has finally released their budget and thus begins the flurry of chatter in the District. One area of particular interest is the President’s proposal for moving forward with student loan interest rates.
: Center for Education and Workforce
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 20, 2013
If you work in the department of education in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island or Tennessee you may have just breathed a sigh of relief. Why? Because the U.S.
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.
March 11, 2013
San Antonio mayor, Julian Castro, was recently interviewed by the National Journal regarding the economy, improving education, and the need to clo
March 8, 2013
The late Steve Jobs of Apple, Inc., by any measure one of the greatest of American innovators, once noted that “innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” As home to the most prolific innovators in the world, the United States has long been not just a leader, but the leader in the
February 25, 2013
“Good is the enemy of great.” So begins Jim Collins’ book Good to Great. “We don’t have great schools,” he goes on to say “principally because we have good schools.”