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Test scores are up across all the grades. Graduation rates are at record highs. How did New York City students make so much progress over the last eight years? In a word: teachers.
Categories: Education News OP-ED
EEP Director, Ellen Winn, is guest blogging for the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit Blog. Check out her post, “Closing the Achivement Gap – The Edupreneur Way” here.
Categories: Education News
EEP joined a coalition of other education advocates in a letter urging the House Appropriations Committee to fund education policies that save jobs, target high-need populations, and drive ongoing education reforms at the state and local level.
Categories: Education News Policy Statements
EEP joins with a number of other education equity organizations in a letter to Congress regarding Senator Harkin’s $23B “Keep Our Educators Working Act.” Collectively we ask Congress to amend the bill to require any state who would receive funds under this Act to “to abandon seniority-based layoff practices” and to close a loophole that would allow states to use these funds to “balance their budgets” rather than to retain and hire educators.
Categories: Education News Policy Statements
Secretary Arne Duncan's Remarks at the KIPP Annual Dinner, April 30, 2010 -- "I have a confession to make tonight. I am getting impatient with talking about "islands" of educational excellence. If no man is an island, no school should be either."
Categories: Education News
I spent an hour talking with Ellen Winn today. Ellen runs the Education Equality Project in New York, a non-profit advocacy organization focused on closing the achievement gap. Our conversation traveled through a few strains and trends in the education reform movement. We took notes together and here’s what I came away with after talking to her.
Categories: Education News EEP News
If education reform was easy, we would have done it long ago and, like the mythical Lake Wobegon, all of our children would be performing above average. In the real world, reform happens when adults put aside differences, embrace the challenge of educating all children, and work together toward a common vision of success.
Categories: Education News
The Education Equality Project congratulates Rhode Island Education Commissioner and EEP Signatory Deborah Gist on her selection as one of The 2010 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual ranking of the 100 people who most affect the world.
Categories: Education News
Joel Klein, NYC Schools Chancellor and Co-Chairperson of the Education Equality Project weighs in on this week’s National Journal Education Blog focusing on FL Gov. Charlie Crist’s decision to veto legislation that would have overhauled the state’s education system by eliminating the traditional teacher tenure system and linking teacher pay to student achievement (SB6).
Categories: Education News
To assist policymakers in the Round 2 planning process, we — Democrats for Education Reform, the Education Equality Project, and Education Reform Now — are publishing a series of “Race Smarter” briefs, based on analysis of Race to the Top Round 1 applications, with the goal of informing states’ efforts to compete successfully for the remaining $3.4 billion in Race to the Top funds.
Categories: Education News
Jean-Claude Brizard, Rochester City School District Superintendent
Howard Fuller, Former Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent
Chancellor Joel I. Klein, New York City, NY
Joe Williams, Executive Director, Democrats For Education Reform
Roy Romer, Senior Advisor to the President, The College Board
Mayor Adrian Fenty, District of Columbia
Amy Wilkins, Principal Partner, Education Trust
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, CA
Mayor Cory Booker, Newark, NJ
Janet Murguia, President & CEO of National Council of La Raza
Mayor Kevin Johnson, Sacramento, CA
Lisa Graham-Keegan, Founder, Education Breakthrough Network
Michael Lomax, President & CEO of the United Negro College Fund
Senator Michael Bennett, D-CO
Chancellor Michelle Rhee, District of Columbia
Raul Yzaguirre, Former President and CEO, NCLR
Deborah Gist, Education Commissioner, Rhode Island
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City, NY
Mayor Michael Nutter, Philadelphia, PA
Paul Pastorek, Superintendent, LA State
Paul Vallas, Superintendent, New Orleans Recovery
Ramon Cortines, Superintendent, LAUSD
Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago, IL
Andres Alonso, Baltimore City Public Schools CEO
Jeb Bush, Former Governor of Florida
Senator John McCain, R-AZ
Jared Polis, U.S. House of Representatives, D-CO
Jordan Coleman, Youth Filmmaker, Actor, Student
Steve Barr, Green Dot Founder and Chairman
Peter Groff, CEO, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Eva Moskowitz, Success Charter Network Founder and CEO
Marc Ecko, Marc Ecko Enterprises Founder and Chief Creative Officer
J.B. Schramm, CEO and Founder, College Summit
Richard R. Buery Jr., President and CEO, Children’s Aid Society
John Conyers Jr., U.S. House of Representatives, D-MI
Jon Schnur, New Leaders for New Schools CEO and Co-Founder
Mike Feinberg, Co-Founder, KIPP
Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute President and CEO
Tiki Barber, Chairman, Tiki Ventures LLC
Alisha Thomas Morgan, GA General Assembly—State Representative
Chaka Fattah, U.S. House of Representatives, PA
Ted Mitchell, NewSchools Venture Fund, Chief Executive Officer
Iris Chen, “I Have a Dream” Foundation, President and CEO
Kevin P. Chavous, attorney, author, and national school reform leader
Margaret Spellings, Margaret Spellings and Company
Rod Paige, Former Secretary of Education (2001 - 2005)
