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Interview: Steven Adamowski, Superintendent, Hartford Public Schools
Steven Adamowski agreed to answer a few questions from edReformer about the district's policies on education, improvement and raising the standards for excellence in its schools.
State Edu-Leaders: Please Don’t Screw Up the Next Decade of Testing
State education leaders need to be thinking about students of the future, students of the present headed for a college-ready future, and the testing and assessment practices of the future that can be implemented today.
Video Comment: Congressman George Miller
Congressman George Miller says we need evidence to show who is a good teacher, and who is not performing. We can't compare right now.
Video Interview: Michelle Rhee, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools
After her message to education reformers that they should not be timid, Michelle Rhee tells edReformer that collaboration only works when the aim is to stop harming children.
Interview: Kelly Amis, Director, TEACHED
Kelly Amis discusses what she learned about public education from being a founding corps member of Teach for America and the Director of TEACHED, a new movie about the impact of unions on the quality of education.
NACSA Releases State of Charter School Authorizers Report
The NACSA report provides an overview of the policies, practices, and characteristics of the nation’s largest charter school authorizers as well as a sampling of smaller authorizing entities
Gov. Bob Wise: Bringing Content to the Classroom
Governor Bob Wise is speaking at the Arkansas Policy Foundation online learning forum. You can follow us on Twitter.
NYC: Hub of the Learning Revolution
Yesterday I attended the NYC Symposium for Social Change. The focus was impact investing. My friends from City Light Capital made the case for investing with a high bar for return and social benefit. Seth Pinsky, NYC EcoDevo, made the case for NYC global hub for the innovation economy and…
WI Welfare is to LA Edu-Employment Bargain?
All Hess all day at EdReformer. In addition to his greenfield article debuting today, Rick wrote an EdWeek tome yesterday bemoaning all the things that could go wrong with rapidly drafted laws the goal of improving teacher evaluation and winning a RttT grant. As he loves to do, Hess…
Supporting Aggressive Reform: The Arne Duncan Case for Change
National Journal takes up the apparent dichotomy in Race to the Top applications between support vs. aggressive plans.