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The Aspen Education and Society program organizes learning networks and policy workshops that help local, state and national education leaders share knowledge about how school systems can improve the education and life chances of poor and minority students and works with them to create programs and policies to accomplish these goals.

Publications

Teaching Talent: A Visionary Framework for Human Capital in Education

2010

Strategic Staffing for Successful Schools: Breaking the Cycle of Failure in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

2010

Core Principles for New Accountability in Education

2010

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Release of Case Study: Strategic Staffing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Schools

April 20, 2010

NYT Editorial on CMS Strategic Staffing Initiative: When the System Works

April 26, 2010

Using Stimulus Funds to Build a Bridge to Better Practice

February 23, 2009

New! Teaching Talent: A Visionary Framework for Human Capital in Education Edited by Rachel E. Curtis and Judy Wurtzel, foreword by Michael F. Bennet, Senator from Colorado                                         Human capital is one of the most important levers we have for improving school effectiveness and student achievement. Teaching Talent presents a framework for human capital development that draws on a two-year initiative by the Aspen Institute Education and Society Program to research sectors that have effective, well-developed human capital systems and point the way toward human capital innovations in public education. More.

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ERP II Conference, Companies in a Competitive World

September 9, 2010 - September 12, 2010
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Central America Leadership Initiative

August 23, 2010 - August 28, 2010
Managua, Nicaragua
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