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Live From Summit 2016: Hopes for the Future
in Policy and Politics, Summit onView PostThe closing plenary at NewSchools Summit 2016 was an authentic, engaging end to a day that both began and ended with student voices. Following brief remarks, N…
Live From Summit 2016: Left, Right, Kids in the Middle
in Policy and Politics, Summit onView PostCynthia Tucker Haynes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and a popular radio and television commentator led a lively discussion along with two pane…
Live From Summit 2016: Jeopardy!
View PostDebbie Veney, Director of Communications for NewSchools Venture Fund, kicked off a lively discussion about the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), using a fun, …
Top 10 Education Stories from 2013 to Watch for in 2014
in Policy and Politics onView PostI just got an email from a friend the other day asking for my mailing address to send me a holiday card. When my kids were toddlers, our holiday cards went out…
Education Resources to Help You Stay in the Know
in Policy and Politics onView PostAs a newer member of the NewSchools team, one of my New Year’s resolutions is to try and stay more current with education news in 2014. I asked our team for th…
GREAT Act: More Reality Needed in Teaching… and Op-Eds
in Policy and Politics onView PostWe have a serious problem in the United States: when it comes to training teachers, we are somewhere between mediocre to terrible. And we do a particularly bad…
Mowing Down the Mistakes of Confused Common Core Opponents
in Policy and Politics onView PostOn Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle’s online portal SFGate.com ran an anti-Common Core op-ed authored by George Ball, the “past president of the American Ho…
Why are the Common Core standards worth fighting for?
in Policy and Politics onView PostBefore answering that question, let’s first do a little homework. Please turn to page 22 of this booklet, released only this morning, which contains sample ass…
