How using big data can drive big value… to economic opportunity
Google CEO Eric Schmidt estimates that humans now create as much information every two days as we did from the beginning of civilization...
02 December, 2012
Masonry
Sequestration 101
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...
21 November, 2012
Measuring Student Growth Means More Than Measuring Student Growth: Teacher Voice Helping Administrators Better Understand a Teacher’s Role.
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...
15 November, 2012
Unintended Consequences of Education Reform
“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...
05 October, 2012
Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow Secures Passage of Groundbreaking Fine Arts Assessment in Tennessee
Monday, August 20th, 2012 Hope Street Group, a national bipartisan organization whose mission is to convene the best leaders and practitioners across political aisles...
20 August, 2012
Hope Street Group Adds Vice President of Education
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012 Hope Street Group is pleased to announce Daniel Cruce as the new Vice President of Education. Mr. Cruce is the...
15 August, 2012
Calvert educator gets closer look at state, federal evaluation tools
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...
08 August, 2012
Educators use summer to learn, improve
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 The Bastrop AdvertiserSummer’s in full swing and while students and teachers alike are enjoying their time off, taking vacations and...
25 July, 2012
A glance at the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges
Overview A portion of Hope Street Group’s healthcare initiative includes exploring ways to lower costs through such mechanisms as payment reform and efficiency improvements....
20 July, 2012