Content tagged with “Education”
Teacher evaluation has emerged as a key strategy for improving student outcomes in public education.The rationale is compelling: teachers vary widely in their effectiveness, and evaluation systems...
Tags: Education Save the Date: Advocacy Evaluation Breakfast on Dec. 15th Colleagues from the United Nations Foundation will be dropping by on Dec. 15th at 8:15am to describe their new internal performance...
Tags: Education, APEP News, US Politics Aspen Institute Public Leadership Awardees:Cory Booker, Mayor of NewarkKaya Henderson, Chancellor of the DC Public School SystemJoel Klein, former Chancellor of the New York City Department of...
Tags: Education, annual awards, cory booker, kaya henderson, joel klein Urban Jungles What do Beihai (China), Ghaziabad (India) and Saana (Yemen) have in common? According to Foreign Policy, they’re three of the top fastest growing cities in the world. With the usual...
Tags: Foreign Policy, Poverty, Education Backtracking on Fees Bank of America’s much-maligned proposal to levy a $5 monthly fee on customers for debit card-use is no more. Now, the media is busy talking about the growing power of the...
Tags: Education, Evaluation Theory and Methods, Advocacy and Social Media “You’ll be paid and promoted the longer you stay breathing,” said a fired-up Steven Brill of public-school teachers at an Institute talk this week as part of the Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book...
Tags: Education, education reform, The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series, Steven Brill As California Goes, So Goes the Nation (Or So They Say) This past Tuesday, Annette Gardner dropped by for a breakfast chat about her evaluation of The California Endowment’s Clinic Consortia Policy...
Tags: Education, APEP News, Income Inequality, Advocacy Strategies Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools.
Tags: Education, education reform 
