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Live From Summit 2016: Real Talk with Teach For America
Teach For America CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard engaged in a conversation with Marc Sternberg, Director of K-12 Education Program at the Walton Family Foundation reflecting on Teach For America’s first 25…
Live From Summit 2016: A Conversation with Nate Parker
Nate Parker lit up the crowd (and the Internet) with his provocative, challenging and uplifiting conversation with Carlos Watson of OZY Media. Parker, the writer, producer and star of the…
Live From Summit 2016: Movements for the Next America
NewSchools Summit 2016 officially began this morning with an inspirational opening plenary. Two young women -- one Latino and one Black – stepped onto the stage, and beneath a single…
Live From Summit 2016: The Time is Now for ELL Edtech Tools
Esther Tricoche, Associate Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund, moderated a session examining the rapidly changing demographics in the US. The panel of leaders who joined her included: Jordan Meranus, Co-founder and CEO of Ellevation Education Mirta…
Equity Reports: Transparent Data to Spark Change
Despite major changes in DC’s education reform landscape, the black-white achievement gap remains the largest in the country. According to the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the gap…