In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Chief Operating Officer Bill Tucker reviews a new book on educational testing, and Research and Policy Manager Kevin Carey offers a fix for higher education's "chaotic" credit-transfer system. Also, the Biweekly Digest takes a short break.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Policy Analyst Erin Dillon reveals the charter school community's whereabouts and highlights some of our related work. Also, Research and Policy Manager Kevin Carey tackles a number of higher ed concerns from college costs to online courses.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Education Sector staff share a few good summer reads, Co-director Andrew Rotherham advises the nation's next president on teacher quality, and we welcome the newest member of our team.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Research and Policy Manager Kevin Carey and Marguerite Roza, an Education Sector nonresident senior fellow, examine funding disparities in public education. Also, Carey surveys the international college rankings scene. And, if you missed our forum on education research, you can hear all about it here.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Co-director Andrew J. Rotherham and Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva team up with the FDR Research Group to present the findings from a national survey of public school teachers. Also, former intern Danny Rosenthal shares lessons from his tenure with Teach for America.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Research and Policy Manager Kevin Carey highlights new information on college graduation rates, Co-director Thomas Toch marks the start of today's education-reform movement, and Co-director Andrew J. Rotherham reviews a new book on Teach for America. Carey also questions funding equity in higher education.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva takes a look at teacher quality in Chattanooga, and Research and Policy Manager Kevin Carey and Co-director Andrew J. Rotherham examine low college graduation rates. Rotherham also discusses public education's failure to meet the challenges of a changing society.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, we reflect on Education Sector's mission, while Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva discusses single-sex education, COO Bill Tucker talks about virtual learning, and Co-director Andrew J. Rotherham addresses after-school programs and more.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Co-director Andrew J. Rotherham addresses the changing role of teachers union contracts, and Co-director Thomas Toch critiques a controversial plan to evaluate teachers. Also, if you are interested in the latest in education research, save the date for an upcoming event.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, we welcome our new board members. Also, Research and Policy Manager Kevin Carey examines the cost crisis in higher education, and Co-director Andrew J. Rotherham teams up with Jane Hannaway of the Urban Institute to discuss performance incentives and teachers unions. Rotherham also addresses the charter school climate in Washington, D.C.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Research and Policy Manager Kevin Carey and Policy Analyst Erin Dillon probe the path to higher education, and Co-director Andrew J. Rotherham and
USA Today's Richard Whitmire highlight best practices in the charter school movement. Also, Carey turns to baseball to back New York's controversial plan to measure teachers by students' test scores.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, Co-director Thomas Toch teams up with Robert Rothman of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform to address a missing link in the teacher quality debate: teacher evaluations. Also, we invite you to join us for an important discussion on why the history of NCLB is important to today's debates.
In this edition of the Biweekly Digest, Co-director Andrew J. Rotherham outlines five deals to expand and improve charter schooling and comments on the role of the media in translating policy research. Also, we unveil the second edition of the ES Review and welcome our new communications manager.
In this edition of our Biweekly Digest, we invite you to listen in on an engaging discussion of one of the most controversial topics in public education: teacher evaluation. Also, policy analyst Erin Dillon reasons that it is better to reform rather than scrap NCLB, and Co-director Thomas Toch schools readers of the
New York Times blog "Freakonomics" on the future of standardized testing.
