NewSchools Summit 2010 Session Overview and Video: The Secretary and the Chairman: A Conversation with Arne Duncan and George Miller
Session Description As anyone who has watched “Schoolhouse Rock” knows, the decisive voices in federal education reform efforts will be those of the Administration and of Congress. In this highly unusual joint appearance, two of the most important decision makers joined in conversation on the prospects for real change. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. […]
NewSchools Summit 2010 Session Overview and Video: Closing Achievement Gaps: The Civil Rights Issue of the Next Decade
Session Description: This intergenerational conversation highlighted connections and differences between the civil rights and education reform movements, and explored insights that the civil rights movement provides for tackling what many consider today’s most important social justice issue: closing the achievement gaps that persist in public education. Entrepreneurs were inspired to redouble their actions in addressing the […]
NewSchools Summit 2010 Session Overview and Video: Awards
Description: While much of the NewSchools Summit focuses on charting a path forward and taking a hard, critical look at the challenges and opportunities for this community in the future, it is also an occasion to celebrate the tremendous achievements of the education reform community. As such, NewSchools recognizes individuals and organizations that, through their embodiment of the spirit […]
Braving a new policy world
If the entrepreneurial education movement was a person, what would it want to be when it grew up? This short video – which debuted at the