Guest post: What Race to the Top Says About Education Entrepreneurs
This guest post comes from Ariela Rozman, chief executive officer of The New Teacher Project, an entrepreneurial organization that is changing the conversation about teacher effectiveness across the country. Discussion of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top competition often resembles coverage of a major political campaign. Most of the focus is on the horse […]
More Heat than Light
For evidence that the terrain has shifted for education entrepreneurs, one need look no further than last week’s much-publicized hearing convened by State Senator Bill Perkins (D-Harlem) in downtown Manhattan. In what has been described as hours of “volatile” and “testy” debate, supporters and opponents of New York charter schools traded barbs over charges of fiscal […]
Object lessons in political savvy
Yesterday, I woke up to the latest in a series of object lessons in political savvy for education entrepreneurs. My alarm clock radio is set to NPR, and this morning, I hazed into consciousness listening to a terrific piece by Claudio Sanchez on the growing field of teacher residency programs. The piece focused mostly on […]
I see i3 …
With 29 days until the application deadline, we got a first look this week at what the giant pile of applications might look like. April 1 was the
Guest post: Keep pushing for federal dollars
Our latest guest post comes from Teach For America‘s Kevin Huffman, who is also a columnist at the Washington Post, in response to Mike Petrilli’s recent post warning entrepreneurs away from pursuing fickle federal government funding. Mike Petrilli surfaced an interesting question in his blog entry here: should the education reform sector seek more federal […]
Just a Little Light Summer Reading
The Department of Education has put out a
Way back in 2009, as the stimulus was taking shape, President Barack Obama made clear that results-oriented education reform was an essential part Another $4 Billion for Education: More “By a Factor of a Lot”
Joanne S. Weiss named to lead Race to the Top
During a video-telecast speech at the 2009 NewSchools Venture Fund Summit, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that Joanne S. Weiss h