Content tagged with “Education and Society Program”
Ross Wiener is a vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Education and Society Program.Public education is making massive investments in more meaningful teacher evaluation...
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Yesterday PBS NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan did a story on Acheivement First, a charter school network serving low-income and minority students in the Northeast that the Aspen Institute Education and...
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Eli Broad, founder of the Broad Foundation and renowned business leader, spoke on education as the key to succeeding in the global economy at this summer's Aspen Ideas Festival. Watch the full...
Tags: Election 2012, Eli Broad, Education, Jobs, Deficit reduction, Education and Society Program, Economic Opportunities Program
The teachers strike in Chicago isn't an isolated incident in the ongoing education reform debate that often puts cities and those in the government at odds with teachers unions. Chicago's current...
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Innovation and entrepreneurial approaches to improving education are a major focus of the Institute’s work on education. At the recent NewSchools-Aspen Institute Summit 2012, we explored these issues...
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Yesterday, the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH) announced the launch of a new arts education public-private partnership called Turnaround Art to "narrow the achievement...
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