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21 Nov Sequestration 101

Posted at 20:11h in Education

Introduction Sequestration is an across the board cut to federal discretionary spending set to occur on January 2, 2013. It could negatively affect every major federal discretionary spending program and fundamentally change the way that schools operate. Admittedly, budget cuts are a dry topic. However, budgets also...

15 Nov Measuring Student Growth Means More Than Measuring Student Growth: Teacher Voice Helping Administrators Better Understand a Teacher’s Role.

Posted at 20:14h in Education

In most states across the country, work is underway to incorporate student growth measures into a teacher’s evaluation. In concept, it’s hard to argue that this shouldn’t happen. In application, it’s understandably complicated and, many times, controversial. To bring a different light to this work,...

05 Oct Unintended Consequences of Education Reform

Posted at 20:17h in Education

“The law of unintended consequences has come to be used as an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in a complex system tends to create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes.” My Great Grandpa was the principal of Holmes High School in Covington Kentucky in the 1930’s. He...

20 Aug Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow Secures Passage of Groundbreaking Fine Arts Assessment in Tennessee

Posted at 01:35h in News

Monday, August 20th, 2012 Hope Street Group, a national bipartisan organization whose mission is to convene the best leaders and practitioners across political aisles and collaborate with them to drive economic vitality and widespread prosperity for all Americans, congratulates Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow Dru Davison...

15 Aug Hope Street Group Adds Vice President of Education

Posted at 01:34h in Publications

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012 Hope Street Group is pleased to announce Daniel Cruce as the new Vice President of Education. Mr. Cruce is the former Deputy Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Delaware Department of Education and will lead Hope Street Group’s national and statewide...

08 Aug Calvert educator gets closer look at state, federal evaluation tools

Posted at 01:32h in Publications

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 The Washington Post A Barstow Elementary School educator is getting a chance to help her peers through a fellowship that’s giving her a national look at education reform. Speech language pathologist Lisa Mills is a Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow and is studying...