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Sector Spotlight
Report Release: Reforming Teacher Pensions for a Changing Work Force
New Education Sector report examines teacher pensions and details the problems facing current state pension programs.
Sport or Not? A Question for the Courts
Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva interviewed by the New York Times on Title IX.
Teachers Unions as Agents of Reform
Brad Jupp, an architect of Denver's landmark performance-based teacher pay system, ProComp, is an outspoken advocate of both labor organizing and quality education for disadvantaged kids. In this interview, Jupp talks about ProComp, his views on teacher unionism, and the future of the teaching profession.
Education Sector Welcomes Three New Board Members
Education Sector's board of directors names three prominent leaders in the fields of education and journalism to the board: David W. Breneman, Richard Lee Colvin, and Peter McWalters.
For-profit colleges: Do they shortchange students?
Policy Director Kevin Carey comments on a recent Senate HELP Committee hearing on for-profit colleges.
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Renée Rybak Lang
- Contact Email:
- rrybak@educationsector.org
- Position:
- New Media Specialist
Renée Rybak Lang is Education Sector's new media specialist. In this role, Lang manages Education Sector's multi-media assets, including the organization's Web site, blogs, and social media outlets, as well as other online marketing opportunities. She is responsible for implementing online strategies that engage Education Sector's key audiences and creatively communicate the organization's policy ideas in a Web 2.0 environment. Lang is also a key contributor to the development and implementation of Education Sector's overall communications strategy.
Since joining Education Sector in 2006, Lang has also held the position of events coordinator, organizing Education Sector's popular public events and programs and private convenings, the latter of which she continues to manage.
From 2002 to 2005, Lang was special projects coordinator for the 21st Century Schools Project at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) where she managed the project's many conferences and forums, coordinated the editorial and production process for PPI's highly regarded series of state charter school policy case studies, and authored a regular update on charter school policy and politics for the 21st Century Schools Project Bulletin, a biweekly education reform newsletter with a readership of more than 14,000.
Prior to joining PPI, Lang was an aide to New York State Senator George Maziarz, where she worked on constituent issues and legislation. Lang was born and raised in western New York and is a graduate of Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y., where she studied political science.